diff --git a/package/gnome2/gtk+/configure.in-pango.patch b/package/gnome2/gtk+/configure.in-pango.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index df14f4be9..000000000
--- a/package/gnome2/gtk+/configure.in-pango.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- ./configure.in.vanilla	2005-12-01 08:47:22.000000000 +0100
-+++ ./configure.in	2005-12-01 08:48:19.000000000 +0100
-@@ -1356,7 +1356,7 @@
- if test "x$gdktarget" = "xwin32"; then
- 	PANGO_PACKAGES="pangowin32 pangocairo"
- else
--	PANGO_PACKAGES="pango pangocairo"
-+	PANGO_PACKAGES="pango pangocairo pangoft2"
- fi
- 
- AC_MSG_CHECKING(Pango flags)
diff --git a/package/gnome2/gtk+/fontsel-fix.patch b/package/gnome2/gtk+/fontsel-fix.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 47d4487ff..000000000
--- a/package/gnome2/gtk+/fontsel-fix.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN ---
-# 
-# This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch.
-# Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing
-# the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by
-# the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text!
-# 
-# ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/gnome2/gtk+/fontsel-fix.patch
-# ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Clifford Wolf
-# 
-# This patch file is dual-licensed. It is available under the license the
-# patched project is licensed under, as long as it is an OpenSource license
-# as defined at http://www.opensource.org/ (e.g. BSD, X11) or under the terms
-# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
-# Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
-# version.
-# 
-# --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END ---
-
---- gtk+-2.2.4/gtk/gtkfontsel.c.orig	2003-10-07 01:54:42.000000000 +0200
-+++ gtk+-2.2.4/gtk/gtkfontsel.c	2003-10-07 01:55:07.000000000 +0200
-@@ -1007,6 +1007,8 @@
-   if (fontsel->face)
-     {
-       font_desc = pango_font_face_describe (fontsel->face);
-+      pango_font_description_set_family(font_desc,
-+	  pango_font_family_get_name (fontsel->family));
-       pango_font_description_set_size (font_desc, fontsel->size);
-     }
-   else
diff --git a/package/gnome2/gtk+/gtk+.conf b/package/gnome2/gtk+/gtk+.conf
index 957ea8b9a..427abeabd 100644
--- a/package/gnome2/gtk+/gtk+.conf
+++ b/package/gnome2/gtk+/gtk+.conf
@@ -26,8 +26,3 @@
 # --enable-fbmanager  enable framebuffer manager support (GtkFB)
 var_append confopt ' ' "--with-xinput=yes"
 
-#we need to run autoconf because we patched configure.in
-#running autogen is broken ...
-
-hook_add preconf 3 'autoconf'
-
diff --git a/package/gnome2/gtk+/gtk+.desc b/package/gnome2/gtk+/gtk+.desc
index 15d38b528..67f4a49d4 100644
--- a/package/gnome2/gtk+/gtk+.desc
+++ b/package/gnome2/gtk+/gtk+.desc
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@
 
 [L] GPL
 [S] Stable
-[V] 2.12.1
+[V] 2.14.4
 [P] X --?--5---9 160.200
 
-[D] 1912485766 gtk+-2.12.1.tar.bz2 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.20/2.20.1/sources/
+[D] 2479133091 gtk+-2.14.4.tar.bz2 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.24/2.24.1/sources/
 
diff --git a/package/gnome2/gtk+/jasper-hotfix.patch b/package/gnome2/gtk+/jasper-hotfix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..94431a358
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/gnome2/gtk+/jasper-hotfix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- ./configure.orig	2008-10-30 06:50:57.000000000 +0000
++++ ./configure	2008-10-30 06:51:25.000000000 +0000
+@@ -28483,7 +28483,7 @@
+   echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6
+ else
+   ac_check_lib_save_LIBS=$LIBS
+-LIBS="-ljasper -ljpeg $LIBS"
++LIBS="-ljasper -ljpeg -lm $LIBS"
+ cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
+ /* confdefs.h.  */
+ _ACEOF