diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gtksourceview/gtksourceview-classic-light/classic-light.xml b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gtksourceview/gtksourceview-classic-light/classic-light.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+
+ Based on gtksourceview 'classic'
+ 
+ This file is part of GtkSourceView
+
+ Copyright (C) 2006-2007 GtkSourceView team
+ Author: Yevgen Muntyan <muntyan@tamu.edu>
+
+ GtkSourceView is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+ version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+ GtkSourceView is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
+ Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+
+-->
+<style-scheme id="classic-light" _name="Classic-Light" version="1.0">
+  <author>GtkSourceView team</author>
+  <_description>Classic color scheme light</_description>
+
+  <!-- The scheme tries to look like the default GVim scheme,
+       since it is also what the hardwired GtkSourceView 1 color
+       scheme did -->
+
+  <!-- Palette -->
+  <color name="black"      value="#000000"/>
+  <color name="white"      value="#FFFFFF"/>
+  <color name="blue"       value="#0000FF"/>
+  <color name="magenta"    value="#FF00FF"/>
+  <color name="violet"     value="#6A5ACD"/>
+  <color name="cyan"       value="#008A8C"/>
+  <color name="gray"       value="#BEBEBE"/>
+  <color name="lightgray"  value="#E0E0E0"/>
+  <color name="green"      value="#2E8B57"/>
+  <color name="bordeaux"   value="#A52A2A"/>
+  <color name="red"        value="#FF0000"/>
+  <color name="yellow"     value="#FFFF00"/>
+  <color name="purple"     value="#A020F0"/>
+
+  <!-- Global Settings -->
+  <style name="current-line"                background="#eeeeec"/>
+  <style name="current-line-number"         background="#eeeeec"/>
+  <style name="draw-spaces"                 foreground="#babdb6"/>
+  <style name="background-pattern"          background="#f3f3f3"/>
+  <style name="text"                        foreground="black" background="white"/>
+  <style name="selection"                   background="gray"/>
+  <style name="cursor"                      foreground="black"/>
+  <style name="line-numbers"                foreground="black" background="gray"/>
+
+  <!-- Bracket Matching -->
+  <style name="bracket-match"               foreground="white" background="gray"/>
+  <style name="bracket-mismatch"            foreground="white" background="red"/>
+
+  <!-- Right Margin -->
+  <style name="right-margin"                foreground="#000000" background="#000000"/>
+
+  <!-- Search Matching -->
+  <style name="search-match"                background="yellow"/>
+
+  <!-- Comments -->
+  <style name="def:comment"                 foreground="blue"/>
+  <style name="def:shebang"                 foreground="blue" bold="true"/>
+  <style name="def:doc-comment-element"     italic="true"/>
+
+  <!-- Constants -->
+  <style name="def:constant"                foreground="magenta"/>
+  <style name="def:special-char"            foreground="violet"/>
+
+  <!-- Identifiers -->
+  <style name="def:identifier"              foreground="cyan"/>
+
+  <!-- Statements -->
+  <style name="def:statement"               foreground="bordeaux" bold="true"/>
+
+  <!-- Types -->
+  <style name="def:type"                    foreground="green" bold="true"/>
+
+  <!-- Others -->
+  <style name="def:preprocessor"            foreground="purple"/>
+  <style name="def:error"                   background="red" bold="true"/>
+  <style name="def:warning"                 background="yellow"/>
+  <style name="def:note"                    foreground="blue" background="yellow" bold="true"/>
+  <style name="def:underlined"              italic="true" underline="single"/>
+
+  <!-- Heading styles, uncomment to enable -->
+  <!--
+  <style name="def:heading0"                scale="5.0"/>
+  <style name="def:heading1"                scale="2.5"/>
+  <style name="def:heading2"                scale="2.0"/>
+  <style name="def:heading3"                scale="1.7"/>
+  <style name="def:heading4"                scale="1.5"/>
+  <style name="def:heading5"                scale="1.3"/>
+  <style name="def:heading6"                scale="1.2"/>
+  -->
+
+  <!-- Language specific styles -->
+  <style name="diff:added-line"             foreground="#008B8B"/>
+  <style name="diff:removed-line"           foreground="#6A5ACD"/>
+  <style name="diff:changed-line"           use-style="def:preprocessor"/>
+  <style name="diff:special-case"           use-style="def:constant"/>
+  <style name="diff:location"               use-style="def:statement"/>
+  <style name="diff:diff-file"              use-style="def:type"/>
+
+  <style name="xml:tags"                    foreground="cyan"/>
+  <style name="xml:attribute-name"          foreground="violet"/>
+  <style name="xml:namespace"               foreground="green" bold="true"/>
+
+  <style name="js:object"                   foreground="#2E8B57" bold="true"/>
+  <style name="js:constructors"             foreground="#008B8B"/>
+
+  <style name="latex:display-math"          foreground="#6A5ACD"/>
+  <style name="latex:command"               foreground="#2E8B57" bold="true"/>
+  <style name="latex:include"               use-style="def:preprocessor"/>
+
+  <style name="sh:variable"                 foreground="#6A5ACD"/>
+
+  <!-- legacy styles for old lang files -->
+  <style name="Others"                      foreground="#2E8B57" bold="true"/>
+  <style name="Others 2"                    foreground="#008B8B"/>
+  <style name="Others 3"                    foreground="#6A5ACD"/>
+
+</style-scheme>
diff --git a/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gtksourceview/gtksourceview-classic-light_1.0.bb b/meta-gnome/recipes-gnome/gtksourceview/gtksourceview-classic-light_1.0.bb
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index 0000000000..e7dc0f865c
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+DESCRIPTION = "Gtksourceview Classic-Light theme"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://classic-light.xml;beginline=6;endline=23;md5=2b4f75364fad00a4d752214dcbd7d7c3"
+
+inherit allarch
+
+SRC_URI = "file://classic-light.xml"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}"
+
+do_install() {
+    install -d ${D}${datadir}/gtksourceview-2.0/styles
+    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/classic-light.xml ${D}${datadir}/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/
+    install -d ${D}${datadir}/gtksourceview-3.0/styles
+    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/classic-light.xml ${D}${datadir}/gtksourceview-3.0/styles/
+}
+
+FILES_${PN} = " \
+    ${datadir}/gtksourceview-2.0/styles \
+    ${datadir}/gtksourceview-3.0/styles \
+"