diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/default.nix
index 56e9c33c0d1..f31e531b907 100644
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/default.nix
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ let overridden = set // overrides; set = with overridden; {
   startupnotification = libstartup_notification;
   gnomedocutils = self.gnome-doc-utils;
   gnomeicontheme = self.gnome_icon_theme;
-  gnomepanel = self.gnome_panel;
   gnome_common = gnome-common;
   gnome_keyring = gnome-keyring;
   gnome_desktop = gnome-desktop;
@@ -100,8 +99,6 @@ let overridden = set // overrides; set = with overridden; {
 
   gnome-desktop = callPackage ./desktop/gnome-desktop { };
 
-  gnome_panel = callPackage ./desktop/gnome-panel { };
-
   gtksourceview = callPackage ./desktop/gtksourceview { };
 
   gnome_icon_theme = callPackage ./desktop/gnome-icon-theme { };
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/gnome-panel/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/gnome-panel/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 3bef218740c..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/desktops/gnome-2/desktop/gnome-panel/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, dbus-glib, popt, which, libxml2Python, libxslt, bzip2, python
-, gtk, libXau, libcanberra-gtk2
-, intltool, ORBit2, libglade, libgnome, libgnomeui, libbonobo, libbonoboui, GConf, gnome_menus, gnome-desktop
-, libwnck, librsvg, libgweather, gnome-doc-utils, libtasn1, libtool, xorg }:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "gnome-panel-2.32.1";
-
-  src = fetchurl {
-    url = mirror://gnome/sources/gnome-panel/2.32/gnome-panel-2.32.1.tar.bz2;
-    sha256 = "0pyakxyixmcp1yhi8r1q6adhamh2waj48y397fkigj11gbmjhy4g";
-  };
-
-  buildInputs =
-    [ gtk dbus-glib popt libxml2Python libxslt bzip2 python libXau intltool
-      ORBit2 libglade libgnome libgnomeui libbonobo libbonoboui GConf
-      gnome_menus gnome-desktop libwnck librsvg libgweather gnome-doc-utils
-      libtasn1 libtool libcanberra-gtk2 xorg.libICE xorg.libSM
-    ];
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig intltool which ];
-
-  configureFlags = [ "--disable-scrollkeeper" "--disable-introspection"/*not useful AFAIK*/ ];
-
-  NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE="-I${GConf.dev}/include/gconf/2";
-}