diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/xfce-4.8/core/garcon.nix b/pkgs/desktops/xfce-4.8/core/garcon.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..63baefd9e67b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/xfce-4.8/core/garcon.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, intltool, glib }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "garcon-0.1.8";
+  
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/garcon/0.1/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha1 = "e5eac6a13208c81ccad0941656c01e7a69530f03";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig intltool glib ];
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.xfce.org/;
+    description = "Xfce panel";
+    license = "GPLv2+";
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/xfce-4.8/core/libxfce4ui.nix b/pkgs/desktops/xfce-4.8/core/libxfce4ui.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c3551d565e10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/xfce-4.8/core/libxfce4ui.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, intltool, gtk, libxfce4util, xfconf
+, libstartup_notification }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "libxfce4ui-4.8.0";
+  
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/libxfce4ui/4.8/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha1 = "107f9d8e3e583f3cf5330074e89ea72eb2a82888";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs =
+    [ pkgconfig intltool gtk libxfce4util xfconf
+      libstartup_notification
+    ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = http://www.xfce.org/;
+    description = "Basic GUI library for Xfce";
+    license = "LGPLv2+";
+  };
+}