diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gedit/gedit_2.30.0.bb b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gedit/gedit_2.30.0.bb
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+DESCRIPTION = "GNOME editor"
+SECTION = "x11/gnome"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2+"
+
+DEPENDS = "enchant gconf gnome-common gnome-doc-utils-native glib-2.0 gtk+ gtksourceview2 iso-codes virtual/gettext"
+
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
+
+inherit gnome
+SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "aebd49797406fdde7b25624b71990860"
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "37598473372aab217e46f19726cff616ff0ea4121bbdbb170b4e264a4ca76690"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-scrollkeeper"
+
+do_configure_prepend () {
+	cp ${STAGING_DATADIR}/gnome-common/data/omf.make ${S}
+}
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/gedit-2/plugin* ${datadir}/gedit-2"
+FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/gedit-2/plugin-loaders/.debug ${libdir}/gedit-2/plugins/.debug"
+