diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/adwaita-icon-theme_3.16.2.1.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/gnome/adwaita-icon-theme_3.16.2.1.bb
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+SUMMARY = "GTK+ icon theme"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/adwaita-icon-theme/"
+BUGTRACKER = "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/"
+SECTION = "x11/gnome"
+
+LICENSE = "LGPL-3.0 | CC-BY-SA-3.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c84cac88e46fc07647ea07e6c24eeb7c"
+
+inherit allarch autotools pkgconfig gettext gtk-icon-cache
+
+DEPENDS += "intltool-native"
+
+MAJ_VER = "${@oe.utils.trim_version("${PV}", 2)}"
+SRC_URI = "${GNOME_MIRROR}/${BPN}/${MAJ_VER}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.xz \
+           file://Create-symlinks-when-installing-cursors.patch \
+          "
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "9ef86952c947aa27a1a888b7735d60b3"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "b4556dfbf555d4fac12d4d5c12f7519de0d43ec42a1b649611439a50bf7acb96"
+
+do_install_append() {
+	# Build uses gtk-encode-symbolic-svg to create png versions:
+        # no need to store the svgs anymore.
+	rm -f ${D}${prefix}/share/icons/Adwaita/scalable/*/*-symbolic.svg \
+	      ${D}${prefix}/share/icons/Adwaita/scalable/*/*-symbolic-rtl.svg
+}
+
+PACKAGES = "${PN}-cursors ${PN}-symbolic ${PN}-hires ${PN}"
+
+FILES_${PN}-cursors = "${prefix}/share/icons/Adwaita/cursors/"
+FILES_${PN}-symbolic = "${prefix}/share/icons/Adwaita/*/*/*.symbolic.png"
+FILES_${PN}-hires = "${prefix}/share/icons/Adwaita/256x256/"
+FILES_${PN} = "${prefix}/share/icons/Adwaita/ \
+               ${prefix}/share/pkgconfig/adwaita-icon-theme.pc"