diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/nextcloud-client/0001-Explicitly-copy-dbus-files-into-the-store-dir.patch b/pkgs/applications/networking/nextcloud-client/0001-Explicitly-copy-dbus-files-into-the-store-dir.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..67cabc820b7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/nextcloud-client/0001-Explicitly-copy-dbus-files-into-the-store-dir.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From bbd366348d1f0e334d4604d04e293a046070e666 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Maximilian Bosch <maximilian@mbosch.me>
+Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:19:20 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Explicitly copy dbus files into the store dir
+
+---
+ shell_integration/libcloudproviders/CMakeLists.txt | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/shell_integration/libcloudproviders/CMakeLists.txt b/shell_integration/libcloudproviders/CMakeLists.txt
+index 1f35335..7f76951 100644
+--- a/shell_integration/libcloudproviders/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/shell_integration/libcloudproviders/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ MACRO(PKGCONFIG_GETVAR _package _var _output_variable)
+ ENDMACRO(PKGCONFIG_GETVAR _package _var _output_variable)
+ 
+ macro(dbus_add_activation_service _sources)
+-    PKGCONFIG_GETVAR(dbus-1 session_bus_services_dir _install_dir)
++    set(_install_dir "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/etc/dbus-1/service")
+     foreach (_i ${_sources})
+         get_filename_component(_service_file ${_i} ABSOLUTE)
+         string(REGEX REPLACE "\\.service.*$" ".service" _output_file ${_i})
+-- 
+2.19.2
+
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/nextcloud-client/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/nextcloud-client/default.nix
index 37eb248fb486..9a97783c74b1 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/nextcloud-client/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/nextcloud-client/default.nix
@@ -1,20 +1,24 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchgit, cmake, pkgconfig, qtbase, qtwebkit, qtkeychain, qttools, sqlite
-, inotify-tools, wrapQtAppsHook, openssl_1_1, pcre, qtwebengine, libsecret
+{ lib, mkDerivation, fetchgit, cmake, pkgconfig, qtbase, qtwebkit, qtkeychain, qttools, sqlite
+, inotify-tools, openssl_1_1, pcre, qtwebengine, libsecret
 , libcloudproviders
 }:
 
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+mkDerivation rec {
   name = "nextcloud-client-${version}";
-  version = "2.5.2";
+  version = "2.5.3";
 
   src = fetchgit {
     url = "git://github.com/nextcloud/desktop.git";
     rev = "refs/tags/v${version}";
-    sha256 = "1brpxdgyy742dqw6cyyv2257d6ihwiqhbzfk2hb8zjgbi6p9lhsr";
+    sha256 = "0fbw56bfbyk3cqv94iqfsxjf01dwy1ysjz89dri7qccs65rnjswj";
     fetchSubmodules = true;
   };
 
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig cmake wrapQtAppsHook ];
+  patches = [
+    ./0001-Explicitly-copy-dbus-files-into-the-store-dir.patch
+  ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig cmake ];
 
   buildInputs = [ qtbase qtwebkit qtkeychain qttools qtwebengine sqlite openssl_1_1.out pcre inotify-tools libcloudproviders ];
 
@@ -32,7 +36,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   ];
 
   qtWrapperArgs = [
-    ''--prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : ${stdenv.lib.makeLibraryPath [ libsecret ]}''
+    ''--prefix LD_LIBRARY_PATH : ${lib.makeLibraryPath [ libsecret ]}''
   ];
 
   postInstall = ''
@@ -40,7 +44,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     $out/share/applications/nextcloud.desktop
   '';
 
-  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+  meta = with lib; {
     description = "Nextcloud themed desktop client";
     homepage = https://nextcloud.com;
     license = licenses.gpl2;