diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/colord-gtk/colord-gtk_0.2.0.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/colord-gtk/colord-gtk_0.2.0.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c960b99c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/colord-gtk/colord-gtk_0.2.0.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+SUMMARY = "GTK support library for colord"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv3"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=e6a600fd5e1d9cbde2d983680233ad02"
+
+inherit meson gobject-introspection gettext gtk-doc distro_features_check
+
+DEPENDS = " \
+    gtk+3 \
+    colord \
+"
+
+SRC_URI = "http://www.freedesktop.org/software/colord/releases/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.xz"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "66d048803c8b89e5e63da4b461484933"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "2a4cfae08bc69f000f40374934cd26f4ae86d286ce7de89f1622abc59644c717"
+
+EXTRA_OEMESON = "-Dman=false"
+
+# gobject-introspection is mandatory and cannot be configured
+REQUIRED_DISTRO_FEATURES = "gobject-introspection-data"
+UNKNOWN_CONFIGURE_WHITELIST_append = " introspection"
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/ibus/ibus-native.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/ibus/ibus-native.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ca65114
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/ibus/ibus-native.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+require ${BPN}.inc
+
+inherit native
+
+DEPENDS += " \
+    glib-2.0-native \
+    dbus-native \
+    iso-codes \
+"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG = ""
+
+# for allarch iso-codes
+EXTRA_NATIVE_PKGCONFIG_PATH = ":${RECIPE_SYSROOT}${datadir_native}/pkgconfig"
+# for allarch unicode-ucd - just to make configure happy
+EXTRA_OECONF += "--with-ucd-dir=${RECIPE_SYSROOT}${datadir_native}/unicode/ucd"
+
+do_compile() {
+    cd src
+    # seems by moving to src we break dependency tracking so build what's
+    # necessary step by step
+    oe_runmake ibusenumtypes.h
+    oe_runmake ibusmarshalers.h
+    oe_runmake ibusenumtypes.c
+    oe_runmake unicode-parser
+}
+
+do_install() {
+    install -d ${D}/${libdir}
+    install -m 755 ${S}/src/.libs/libibus-*.so* ${D}/${libdir}
+
+    install -d ${D}/${bindir}
+    install -m 755 ${S}/src/.libs/unicode-parser ${D}/${bindir}
+}
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/ibus/ibus.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/ibus/ibus.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..caec455
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/ibus/ibus.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+require ${BPN}.inc
+
+DEPENDS += " \
+    ${BPN}-native \
+    glib-2.0-native \
+    glib-2.0 \
+    dbus \
+    iso-codes \
+"
+
+inherit gtk-icon-cache bash-completion
+
+# for unicode-ucd
+EXTRA_OECONF += "--with-ucd-dir=${STAGING_DATADIR}/unicode/ucd"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= " \
+    dconf vala \
+    ${@bb.utils.contains_any('DISTRO_FEATURES', [ 'wayland', 'x11' ], 'gtk3', '', d)} \
+    ${@bb.utils.filter('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'wayland x11', d)} \
+"
+
+do_configure_prepend() {
+    # run native unicode-parser
+    sed -i 's:$(builddir)/unicode-parser:unicode-parser:g' ${S}/src/Makefile.am
+}
+
+FILES_${PN} += " \
+    ${datadir}/dbus-1 \
+    ${datadir}/GConf \
+    ${datadir}/glib-2.0 \
+    ${libdir}/gtk-3.0 \
+"
+
+FILES_${PN}-dev += " \
+    ${datadir}/gettext \
+"
+
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/ibus/ibus.inc b/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/ibus/ibus.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0f4ae7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/ibus/ibus.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+SUMMARY = "Intelligent Input Bus for Linux/Unix"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/ibus/ibus/wiki"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=fbc093901857fcd118f065f900982c24"
+
+inherit autotools-brokensep pkgconfig gobject-introspection gettext gtk-doc vala
+
+PV = "1.5.21"
+
+DEPENDS = "unicode-ucd"
+
+SRC_URI = " \
+    git://github.com/ibus/ibus.git \
+    file://0001-Do-not-try-to-start-dbus-we-do-not-have-dbus-lauch.patch \
+"
+SRCREV = "ae0040c73466bb6e78fce5e669a55fcce6ffd16d"
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG[appindicator] = "--enable-appindicator,--disable-appindicator,qtbase"
+PACKAGECONFIG[dconf] = "--enable-dconf,--disable-dconf,dconf"
+PACKAGECONFIG[gtk2] = "--enable-gtk2,--disable-gtk2,gtk+"
+PACKAGECONFIG[gtk3] = "--enable-gtk3,--disable-gtk3,gtk+3"
+PACKAGECONFIG[wayland]  = "--enable-wayland,--disable-wayland,wayland"
+PACKAGECONFIG[vala]  = "--enable-vala,--disable-vala"
+PACKAGECONFIG[x11]  = "--enable-xim --enable-ui,--disable-xim --disable-ui,virtual/libx11"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF = " \
+    --disable-tests \
+    --disable-emoji-dict \
+    --disable-python2 \
+"
+
+do_configure_prepend() {
+    touch ${S}/ChangeLog
+    touch ${S}/ABOUT-NLS
+}
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/ibus/ibus/0001-Do-not-try-to-start-dbus-we-do-not-have-dbus-lauch.patch b/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/ibus/ibus/0001-Do-not-try-to-start-dbus-we-do-not-have-dbus-lauch.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3701d19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-gnome/recipes-support/ibus/ibus/0001-Do-not-try-to-start-dbus-we-do-not-have-dbus-lauch.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+From f567bcbc2108d722faa90afeb03d3a3bcdf5f58b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Andreas=20M=C3=BCller?= <schnitzeltony@gmail.com>
+Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 14:30:08 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Do not try to start dbus - we do not have dbus-lauch
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [OE specific]
+
+Signed-off-by: Andreas Müller <schnitzeltony@gmail.com>
+---
+ data/dconf/make-dconf-override-db.sh | 6 ------
+ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/data/dconf/make-dconf-override-db.sh b/data/dconf/make-dconf-override-db.sh
+index 9c650e97..02fbf059 100755
+--- a/data/dconf/make-dconf-override-db.sh
++++ b/data/dconf/make-dconf-override-db.sh
+@@ -12,10 +12,6 @@ export XDG_CACHE_HOME="$TMPDIR/cache"
+ export GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR="$TMPDIR/schemas"
+ mkdir -p $XDG_CONFIG_HOME $XDG_CACHE_HOME $GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR
+ 
+-eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax`
+-
+-trap 'rm -rf $TMPDIR; kill $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID' ERR
+-
+ # in case that schema is not installed on the system
+ glib-compile-schemas --targetdir "$GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR" "$PWD"
+ 
+@@ -46,5 +42,3 @@ for schema in $schemas; do
+ done
+ 
+ rm -rf $TMPDIR
+-
+-kill $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID
+-- 
+2.20.1
+