diff --git a/recipes-tweaks/gconf/gconf-sanity-3.2.3/backenddir.patch b/recipes-tweaks/gconf/gconf-sanity-3.2.3/backenddir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4cdf8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-tweaks/gconf/gconf-sanity-3.2.3/backenddir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+Allow the backend directory to be specified from the environment. This is 
+required so we can relocate gconf-native to different paths and still
+allow it to work.
+
+Bug filed upstream with patch: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664650
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+RP 2011/11/23
+
+Index: GConf-3.2.3/gconf/gconf-backend.c
+===================================================================
+--- GConf-3.2.3.orig/gconf/gconf-backend.c	2011-07-01 14:01:20.000000000 +0100
++++ GConf-3.2.3/gconf/gconf-backend.c	2011-11-23 14:56:37.141293320 +0000
+@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
+ #include <config.h>
+ #include "gconf-backend.h"
+ #include "gconf-internals.h"
++#include <stdlib.h>
+ #include <stdio.h>
+ #include <string.h>
+ #include <sys/stat.h>
+@@ -171,6 +172,7 @@
+   gchar* back;
+   gchar* file;
+   gchar* retval;
++  const gchar* backenddir;
+ 
+   g_return_val_if_fail(address != NULL, NULL);
+ 
+@@ -179,9 +181,13 @@
+   if (back == NULL)
+     return NULL;
+ 
++  backenddir = getenv("GCONF_BACKEND_DIR");
++  if (backenddir == NULL)
++    backenddir = GCONF_BACKEND_DIR;
++
+   file = g_strconcat("gconfbackend-", back, NULL);
+   
+-  retval = g_module_build_path(GCONF_BACKEND_DIR, file);
++  retval = g_module_build_path(backenddir, file);
+ 
+   g_free(back);
+ 
diff --git a/recipes-tweaks/gconf/gconf-sanity_3.2.3.bb b/recipes-tweaks/gconf/gconf-sanity_3.2.3.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e85c062
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-tweaks/gconf/gconf-sanity_3.2.3.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+DESCRIPTION = "GNOME configuration system"
+SECTION = "x11/gnome"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=55ca817ccb7d5b5b66355690e9abc605"
+
+DEPENDS = "gtk+ glib-2.0 dbus dbus-glib libxml2 polkit intltool-native gobject-introspection-stub"
+
+inherit gnomebase gtk-doc
+
+SRC_URI = "${GNOME_MIRROR}/GConf/${@gnome_verdir("${PV}")}/GConf-${PV}.tar.bz2;name=archive \
+	   file://backenddir.patch"
+
+SRC_URI[archive.md5sum] = "f80329173cd9d134ad07e36002dd2a15"
+SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "52008a82a847527877d9e1e549a351c86cc53cada4733b8a70a1123925d6aff4"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/GConf-${PV}"
+
+POLKIT_OECONF = "--enable-defaults-service"
+POLKIT_OECONF_virtclass-native = "--disable-defaults-service"
+POLKIT_OECONF_libc-uclibc = "--disable-default-service"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--enable-shared --disable-static --enable-debug=yes \
+                --disable-introspection --disable-orbit --with-openldap=no ${POLKIT_OECONF} --enable-gtk"
+
+do_install_append() {
+	rm -rf ${D}${sysconfdir}
+	rm -rf ${D}${bindir} ${D}${libdir} ${D}${includedir} ${D}${datadir}
+	rm -f ${D}${libexecdir}/*defaults* rm -f ${D}${libexecdir}/gconfd*
+}
+
+# disable dbus-x11 when x11 isn't in DISTRO_FEATURES
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "gconf"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${libexecdir}/*sanity* \
+               "