diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index 2a3b10905539..b56dce798201 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@
   ehmry = "Emery Hemingway <emery@vfemail.net>";
   eikek = "Eike Kettner <eike.kettner@posteo.de>";
   elasticdog = "Aaron Bull Schaefer <aaron@elasticdog.com>";
+  eleanor = "Dejan Lukan <dejan@proteansec.com>";
   elitak = "Eric Litak <elitak@gmail.com>";
   ellis = "Ellis Whitehead <nixos@ellisw.net>";
   epitrochoid = "Mabry Cervin <mpcervin@uncg.edu>";
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/rox/rox-filer/default.nix b/pkgs/desktops/rox/rox-filer/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e7edfd62151b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/rox/rox-filer/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, libxml2, gtk, libSM, shared_mime_info, hicolor_icon_theme }:
+
+let
+  version = "2.11";
+  name = "rox-filer-${version}";
+in stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  inherit name;
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/rox/rox-filer-${version}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "a929bd32ee18ef7a2ed48b971574574592c42e34ae09f36604bf663d7c101ba8";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig libxml2 gtk shared_mime_info hicolor_icon_theme libSM ];
+
+  patches = [
+    ./rox-filer-2.11-in-source-build.patch
+  ];
+
+  # go to the source directory after unpacking the sources
+  setSourceRoot = "export sourceRoot=rox-filer-${version}/ROX-Filer/";
+
+  # patch source with defined patches
+  patchFlags = "-p0";
+
+  # patch the main.c to disable the lookup of the APP_DIR environment variable,
+  # which is used to lookup the location for certain images when rox-filer
+  # starts; rather override the location with an absolute path to the directory
+  # where images are stored to prevent having to use a wrapper, which sets the
+  # APP_DIR environment variable prior to starting rox-filer
+  preConfigure = ''
+    sed -i -e "s:g_strdup(getenv(\"APP_DIR\")):\"$out\":" src/main.c
+    mkdir build
+    cd build
+  '';
+
+  configureScript = "../src/configure";
+
+  installPhase = ''
+    mkdir -p "$out"
+    cd ..
+    cp -av Help Messages Options.xml ROX images style.css .DirIcon "$out"
+
+    # create the man/ directory, which will be moved from $out to share/ in the fixup phase
+    mkdir "$out/man/"
+    cp -av ../rox.1 "$out/man/"
+
+    # the main executable
+    mkdir "$out/bin/"
+    cp -v ROX-Filer "$out/bin/rox"
+
+    # mime types
+    mkdir -p "$out/ROX/MIME"
+    cd "$out/ROX/MIME"
+    ln -sv text-x-{diff,patch}.png
+    ln -sv application-x-font-{afm,type1}.png
+    ln -sv application-xml{,-dtd}.png
+    ln -sv application-xml{,-external-parsed-entity}.png
+    ln -sv application-{,rdf+}xml.png
+    ln -sv application-x{ml,-xbel}.png
+    ln -sv application-{x-shell,java}script.png
+    ln -sv application-x-{bzip,xz}-compressed-tar.png
+    ln -sv application-x-{bzip,lzma}-compressed-tar.png
+    ln -sv application-x-{bzip-compressed-tar,lzo}.png
+    ln -sv application-x-{bzip,xz}.png
+    ln -sv application-x-{gzip,lzma}.png
+    ln -sv application-{msword,rtf}.png
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Fast, lightweight, gtk2 file manager";
+    homepage = "http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop";
+    license = with licenses; [ gpl2 lgpl2 ];
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.eleanor ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/desktops/rox/rox-filer/rox-filer-2.11-in-source-build.patch b/pkgs/desktops/rox/rox-filer/rox-filer-2.11-in-source-build.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..11bd80044595
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/desktops/rox/rox-filer/rox-filer-2.11-in-source-build.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+--- src/configure	2011-10-09 16:32:14.000000000 +0200
++++ src/configure2	2016-03-20 09:26:31.640891863 +0100
+@@ -2132,13 +2132,6 @@
+ 
+ 
+ ac_config_headers="$ac_config_headers config.h"
+-
+-
+- if [ -f configure ]; then
+-	as_fn_error $? "Please run configure from the build directory (try ../AppRun --compile)" "$LINENO" 5
+-	exit 1
+-fi
+-
+ ac_ext=c
+ ac_cpp='$CPP $CPPFLAGS'
+ ac_compile='$CC -c $CFLAGS $CPPFLAGS conftest.$ac_ext >&5'
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 922af73fd200..e516fad6b0eb 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -16415,6 +16415,10 @@ in
 
   theme-vertex = callPackage ../misc/themes/vertex { };
 
+  rox-filer = callPackage ../desktops/rox/rox-filer {
+    gtk = gtk2;
+  };
+
   xfce = xfce4-12;
   xfce4-12 = recurseIntoAttrs (callPackage ../desktops/xfce { });