diff --git a/common/shlibs b/common/shlibs
index f93d82dd903..dfdc5abb8bc 100644
--- a/common/shlibs
+++ b/common/shlibs
@@ -983,3 +983,4 @@ libpolkit-qt-core-1.so.1 polkit-qt-0.103.0_1
 libpolkit-qt-agent-1.so.1 polkit-qt-0.103.0_1
 libmikmod.so.2 libmikmod-3.1.12_1
 libSDL_sound-1.0.so.1 SDL_sound-1.0.3_1
+libgtksourceview-2.0.so.0 gtksourceview2-2.10.5_1
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gtksourceview2-devel b/srcpkgs/gtksourceview2-devel
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..8615d337089
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gtksourceview2-devel
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+gtksourceview2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gtksourceview2/gtksourceview2-devel.template b/srcpkgs/gtksourceview2/gtksourceview2-devel.template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ac0543b3395
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gtksourceview2/gtksourceview2-devel.template
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# Template file for 'gtksourceview2-devel'.
+#
+depends="gtk+2-devel libxml2-devel gtksourceview2>=${version}"
+short_desc="${sourcepkg} - development files"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
+
+noarch=yes
+
+do_install() {
+	vmove usr/include usr
+	vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig usr/lib
+	vmove usr/share/gtk-doc usr/share
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gtksourceview2/gtksourceview2.rshlibs b/srcpkgs/gtksourceview2/gtksourceview2.rshlibs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8af9f3b0d5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gtksourceview2/gtksourceview2.rshlibs
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
+libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
+libatk-1.0.so.0
+libgio-2.0.so.0
+libpangoft2-1.0.so.0
+libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
+libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
+libcairo.so.2
+libpango-1.0.so.0
+libfreetype.so.6
+libfontconfig.so.1
+libgobject-2.0.so.0
+libglib-2.0.so.0
+libxml2.so.2
+libc.so.6
diff --git a/srcpkgs/gtksourceview2/template b/srcpkgs/gtksourceview2/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d7264809b4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/gtksourceview2/template
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Template file for 'gtksourceview2'
+pkgname=gtksourceview2
+version=2.10.5
+revision=1
+wrksrc="gtksourceview-${version}"
+subpackages="$pkgname-devel"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="--disable-static"
+makedepends="pkg-config intltool gtk+-devel libxml2-devel"
+short_desc="Text widget that extends GTK+ GtkTextView widget"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+homepage="http://www.gnome.org"
+license="GPL-2"
+distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/gtksourceview/2.10/gtksourceview-${version}.tar.bz2"
+checksum=c585773743b1df8a04b1be7f7d90eecdf22681490d6810be54c81a7ae152191e
+long_desc="
+ GtkSourceView is a text widget that extends the standard gtk+ 2.x text
+ widget GtkTextView. It improves GtkTextView by implementing syntax
+ highlighting and other features typical of a source editor."