diff --git a/ui/bin/package b/ui/bin/package
index 6dbbae2..6dd6beb 100755
--- a/ui/bin/package
+++ b/ui/bin/package
@@ -6,30 +6,43 @@ set -e
 ARCH=${ARCH:-$(uname -m)}
 echo "Building Breezy UI for $ARCH"
 
-check_command() {
-    if ! command -v "$1" &>/dev/null; then
-        echo "Please install \"$1\" and make sure it's available in your \$PATH"
-        exit 1
-    fi
-}
+BUILD_PATH=build
+UI_BUILD_PATH=$BUILD_PATH/ui
+PACKAGE_DIR=$BUILD_PATH/breezy_ui
+mkdir -p $UI_BUILD_PATH
+mkdir -p $PACKAGE_DIR
 
-check_command "flatpak"
-check_command "flatpak-builder"
+meson setup $UI_BUILD_PATH
+pushd $UI_BUILD_PATH
+meson compile
+popd
 
-# https://stackoverflow.com/a/246128
-SCRIPT_DIR=$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" &>/dev/null && pwd)
+PACKAGE_SRC_DIR=$PACKAGE_DIR/src
+PACKAGE_BIN_DIR=$PACKAGE_DIR/bin
+PACKAGE_ICONS_DIR=$PACKAGE_DIR/icons
+mkdir -p $PACKAGE_SRC_DIR
+mkdir -p $PACKAGE_BIN_DIR
+mkdir -p $PACKAGE_ICONS_DIR
 
-TMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d --tmpdir=$SCRIPT_DIR/.. -t .breezy-ui-flatpak-XXXXXXXXXX)
-OUT_DIR=$SCRIPT_DIR/../out
-mkdir -p $OUT_DIR
+cp src/*.py $PACKAGE_SRC_DIR
+cp -r po $BUILD_PATH
+cp modules/PyXRLinuxDriverIPC/xrdriveripc.py $PACKAGE_SRC_DIR
+cp $UI_BUILD_PATH/src/breezydesktop $PACKAGE_BIN_DIR
+cp $UI_BUILD_PATH/src/breezydesktop.gresource $PACKAGE_DIR
+cp $UI_BUILD_PATH/data/com.xronlinux.BreezyDesktop.desktop $PACKAGE_DIR
 
-BUILD_ARTIFACT=$OUT_DIR/com.xronlinux.BreezyDesktop-$ARCH.flatpak
-if [ -e "$BUILD_ARTIFACT" ]; then
-  rm $BUILD_ARTIFACT
-fi
+rsvg-convert data/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/com.xronlinux.BreezyDesktop.svg -w 64 -h 64 -o $PACKAGE_ICONS_DIR/com.xronlinux.BreezyDesktop_64.png
+rsvg-convert data/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/com.xronlinux.BreezyDesktop.svg -w 128 -h 128 -o $PACKAGE_ICONS_DIR/com.xronlinux.BreezyDesktop_128.png
+rsvg-convert data/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/com.xronlinux.BreezyDesktop.svg -w 256 -h 256 -o $PACKAGE_ICONS_DIR/com.xronlinux.BreezyDesktop_256.png
+rsvg-convert data/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/com.xronlinux.BreezyDesktop.svg -w 1024 -h 1024 -o $PACKAGE_ICONS_DIR/com.xronlinux.BreezyDesktop_1024.png
 
-flatpak-builder --arch $ARCH --disable-rofiles-fuse --disable-cache --force-clean --delete-build-dirs --user $TMP_DIR/build $SCRIPT_DIR/../com.xronlinux.BreezyDesktop.json
-flatpak build-export --arch $ARCH $TMP_DIR/export $TMP_DIR/build
-flatpak build-bundle --arch $ARCH $TMP_DIR/export $BUILD_ARTIFACT com.xronlinux.BreezyDesktop --runtime-repo=https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
+pushd $BUILD_PATH
 
-rm -rf "$TMP_DIR"
\ No newline at end of file
+tar -zcvf breezyUI-$ARCH.tar.gz breezy_ui
+
+popd
+
+mkdir -p out
+cp $BUILD_PATH/breezyUI-$ARCH.tar.gz out/
+
+rm -rf $BUILD_PATH
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ui/build-aux/dconf-override.patch b/ui/build-aux/dconf-override.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 2f6e38e..0000000
--- a/ui/build-aux/dconf-override.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-diff --git a/engine/dconf-engine-source-user.c b/engine/dconf-engine-source-user.c
-index 1657875..e4f8786 100644
---- a/engine/dconf-engine-source-user.c
-+++ b/engine/dconf-engine-source-user.c
-@@ -39,11 +39,17 @@ dconf_engine_source_user_open_gvdb (const gchar *name)
- {
-   GvdbTable *table;
-   gchar *filename;
-+  const gchar *override;
-+
-+  override = g_getenv ("DCONF_USER_CONFIG_DIR");
-+  if (override == NULL)
-+    filename = g_build_filename (g_get_user_config_dir (), "dconf", name, NULL);
-+  else
-+    filename = g_build_filename (g_get_home_dir (), override, name, NULL);
- 
-   /* This can fail in the normal case of the user not having any
-    * settings.  That's OK and it shouldn't be considered as an error.
-    */
--  filename = g_build_filename (g_get_user_config_dir (), "dconf", name, NULL);
-   table = gvdb_table_new (filename, FALSE, NULL);
-   g_free (filename);
- 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ui/build-aux/start-breezy-desktop.sh b/ui/build-aux/start-breezy-desktop.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index b82f292..0000000
--- a/ui/build-aux/start-breezy-desktop.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# stolen from dconf-editor:
-# https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/dconf-editor/-/blob/master/build-aux/start-dconf-editor.sh
-
-IFS=: read -ra host_data_dirs < <(flatpak-spawn --host sh -c 'echo "$XDG_DATA_DIRS"')
-IFS=: read -ra HOST_XDG_STATE_HOME < <(flatpak-spawn --host sh -c 'echo "$XDG_STATE_HOME"')
-IFS=: read -ra HOST_XDG_CONFIG_HOME < <(flatpak-spawn --host sh -c 'echo "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"')
-IFS=: read -ra HOST_XDG_BIN_HOME < <(flatpak-spawn --host sh -c 'echo "$XDG_BIN_HOME"')
-IFS=: read -ra HOST_XDG_DATA_HOME < <(flatpak-spawn --host sh -c 'echo "$XDG_DATA_HOME"')
-
-# To avoid potentially muddying up $XDG_DATA_DIRS too much, we link the schema paths
-# into a temporary directory.
-bridge_dir=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/dconf-bridge
-mkdir -p "$bridge_dir"
-
-HOST_XDG_DATA_DIRS=""
-
-for dir in "${host_data_dirs[@]}"; do
-  if [[ "$dir" == /usr/* ]]; then
-    dir=/run/host/"$dir"
-  fi
-
-  schemas="$dir/glib-2.0/schemas"
-  if [[ -d "$schemas" ]]; then
-    bridged=$(mktemp -d XXXXXXXXXX -p "$bridge_dir")
-    mkdir -p "$bridged"/glib-2.0
-    ln -s "$schemas" "$bridged"/glib-2.0
-    HOST_XDG_DATA_DIRS="${HOST_XDG_DATA_DIRS}:${bridged}"
-  fi
-done
-
-# We MUST prepend the host's data dirs BEFORE the Flatpak environment's own dirs,
-# otherwise data (such as default values) load in the wrong order and would then
-# incorrectly prefer the Flatpak's internal defaults instead of the host's defaults!
-if [[ ! -z "${HOST_XDG_DATA_DIRS}" ]]; then
-  XDG_DATA_DIRS="${HOST_XDG_DATA_DIRS:1}:${XDG_DATA_DIRS}"
-fi
-
-if [[ ! -z "${HOST_XDG_BIN_HOME}" ]]; then
-  XDG_BIN_HOME="${HOST_XDG_BIN_HOME}"
-else
-  XDG_BIN_HOME="$(realpath ~)/.local/bin"
-fi
-
-if [[ ! -z "${HOST_XDG_STATE_HOME}" ]]; then
-  XDG_STATE_HOME="${HOST_XDG_STATE_HOME}"
-else
-  XDG_STATE_HOME="$(realpath ~)/.local/state"
-fi
-
-if [[ ! -z "${HOST_XDG_CONFIG_HOME}" ]]; then
-  XDG_CONFIG_HOME="${HOST_XDG_CONFIG_HOME}"
-else
-  XDG_CONFIG_HOME="$(realpath ~)/.config"
-fi
-
-if [[ ! -z "${HOST_XDG_DATA_HOME}" ]]; then
-  XDG_DATA_HOME="${HOST_XDG_DATA_HOME}"
-else
-  XDG_DATA_HOME="$(realpath ~)/.local/share"
-fi
-
-export XDG_DATA_DIRS
-export XDG_BIN_HOME
-export XDG_STATE_HOME
-export XDG_CONFIG_HOME
-export XDG_DATA_HOME
-exec breezydesktop "$@"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ui/data/com.xronlinux.BreezyDesktop.desktop.in b/ui/data/com.xronlinux.BreezyDesktop.desktop.in
index 3955dac..1264eef 100644
--- a/ui/data/com.xronlinux.BreezyDesktop.desktop.in
+++ b/ui/data/com.xronlinux.BreezyDesktop.desktop.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [Desktop Entry]
 Name=Breezy Desktop
-Exec=start-breezy-desktop
+Exec=env LOCALE_DIR=/usr/local/share/breezydesktop/breezydesktop/po breezydesktop
 Icon=com.xronlinux.BreezyDesktop
 Terminal=false
 Type=Application
diff --git a/ui/docker-build/Dockerfile b/ui/docker-build/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8074855
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/docker-build/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# To run the build from the package root:
+#    docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64 -f ./docker-build/Dockerfile -t "breezy-ui" .
+#    docker run --rm -t -v ./:/source -v --platform linux/amd64 "breezy-ui:amd64"
+#    docker run --rm -t -v ./:/source -v --platform linux/arm64 "breezy-ui:arm64"
+
+FROM --platform=$TARGETPLATFORM debian:latest
+
+ARG TARGETPLATFORM
+RUN echo "Target platform: $TARGETPLATFORM"
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+    build-essential \
+    meson \
+    ninja-build \
+    librsvg2-bin \
+    libglib2.0-dev \
+    libgtk-4-common \
+    libgtk-4-bin \
+    gtk-update-icon-cache \
+    desktop-file-utils \
+    gettext \
+    appstream
+
+WORKDIR /source
+
+CMD bin/package
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ui/docker-build/init.sh b/ui/docker-build/init.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2d1d173
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/docker-build/init.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# might be needed on a fresh docker setup:
+#   install qemu and qemu-user-static packages
+#   sudo docker context rm default
+#   docker run --privileged --rm tonistiigi/binfmt --install all
+#   sudo docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes
+#   ls -l /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/ # should contain qemu-<arch> files
+
+if [[ "$1" == "--init" || ! $(docker buildx inspect breezyuibuilder &>/dev/null; echo $?) -eq 0 ]]; then
+    # start fresh
+    echo "Creating new docker builder instance"
+    docker buildx rm breezyuibuilder 2>/dev/null || true
+    docker buildx create --use --name breezyuibuilder --driver docker-container --driver-opt image=moby/buildkit:latest
+else
+    echo "Using existing docker builder instance"
+    docker buildx use breezyuibuilder
+fi
+
+echo "Building docker image"
+docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64 -f ./docker-build/Dockerfile -t "breezy-ui:amd64" --load .
+docker buildx build --platform linux/arm64 -f ./docker-build/Dockerfile -t "breezy-ui:arm64" --load .
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ui/docker-build/run-build.sh b/ui/docker-build/run-build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..da29d78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/docker-build/run-build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -e
+
+USER=${SUDO_USER:-$USER}
+GROUP=$(id -gn $USER)
+
+# Run containers for each architecture
+if [[ "$1" == "x86_64" || -z "$1" ]]; then
+    sudo rm -rf build/
+    docker run --rm -t -v ./:/source --platform linux/amd64 "breezy-ui:amd64"
+    sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP out/
+fi
+
+if [[ "$1" == "aarch64" || -z "$1"  ]]; then
+    sudo rm -rf build/
+    docker run --rm -t -v ./:/source --platform linux/arm64 "breezy-ui:arm64"
+    sudo chown -R $USER:$GROUP out/
+fi
+
+# build directory structure is all owned by root because of docker, delete it all now
+sudo rm -rf build/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/ui/meson.build b/ui/meson.build
index e851137..4d147ed 100644
--- a/ui/meson.build
+++ b/ui/meson.build
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ project('breezydesktop',
 i18n = import('i18n')
 gnome = import('gnome')
 
-
-
 subdir('data')
 subdir('src')
 subdir('po')