diff --git a/pkgs/data/misc/hicolor-icon-theme/default.nix b/pkgs/data/misc/hicolor-icon-theme/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e249dac1dc9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/data/misc/hicolor-icon-theme/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "hicolor-icon-theme-0.12";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "0wzc7g4ldb2l8zc0x2785ck808c03i857jji942ikakyc68adp4y";
+  };
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "Default fallback theme used by implementations of the icon theme specification";
+    homepage = http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases/;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 2d1081a8a380..6cbc65c08757 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -4922,10 +4922,12 @@ let
 
   docbook_xsl_ns = callPackage ../data/sgml+xml/stylesheets/xslt/docbook-xsl-ns { };
 
-  junicode = callPackage ../data/fonts/junicode { };
-
   freefont_ttf = callPackage ../data/fonts/freefont-ttf { };
 
+  hicolor_icon_theme = callPackage ../data/misc/hicolor-icon-theme { };
+  
+  junicode = callPackage ../data/fonts/junicode { };
+
   liberation_ttf = callPackage ../data/fonts/redhat-liberation-fonts { };
 
   libertine = builderDefsPackage (import ../data/fonts/libertine/2.7.nix) {