diff --git a/kactivities/FindKactivities.patch b/kactivities/FindKactivities.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..58b1bd894
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kactivities/FindKactivities.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- a/lib/KActivitiesConfig.cmake.in
++++ b/lib/KActivitiesConfig.cmake.in
+@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
+ get_filename_component(myDir ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_FILE} PATH) # get the directory where I myself am
+ get_filename_component(rootDir ${myDir}/@relInstallDir@ ABSOLUTE) # get the chosen install prefix
+ 
++set(KACTIVITIES_FOUND TRUE)
++
+ # set the version of myself
+ set(KACTIVITIES_VERSION_MAJOR @KACTIVITIES_LIB_MAJOR_VERSION@)
+ set(KACTIVITIES_VERSION_MINOR @KACTIVITIES_LIB_MINOR_VERSION@)
diff --git a/kactivities/PKGBUILD b/kactivities/PKGBUILD
index 0da98d190..07dc1f4e8 100644
--- a/kactivities/PKGBUILD
+++ b/kactivities/PKGBUILD
@@ -23,19 +23,21 @@ md5sums=(`grep ${pkgname}-$_kdever.tar.xz ../kde-sc.md5 | cut -d" " -f1`)
 
 
 build() {
-	cd "${srcdir}"
+	cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
+
+        patch -p1 -i ${startdir}/FindKactivities.patch
  
         rm -rf build
 	mkdir build && cd build
 
-	cmake ../${pkgname}-${pkgver} \
+	cmake .. \
     		-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
     		-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
 	make
 }
 
 package() {
-  	cd $srcdir/build
+  	cd $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver/build
 	make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install
 
 }
diff --git a/kde-runtime/PKGBUILD b/kde-runtime/PKGBUILD
index 39d4478b7..e8605cf6c 100644
--- a/kde-runtime/PKGBUILD
+++ b/kde-runtime/PKGBUILD
@@ -31,10 +31,13 @@ noextract=(branding.svgz)
 
 source=($_mirror/${pkgname}-$_kdever.tar.xz
 	branding.svgz
-	01_disable_logout_sound.patch)
+	01_disable_logout_sound.patch
+	FindKactivities.patch)
+
 md5sums=(`grep ${pkgname}-$_kdever.tar.xz ../kde-sc.md5 | cut -d" " -f1`
         '68cd8eb57db22c2f2ed554b721253bc2'   #  branding.svgz
-        'a434bf282ee391b2f857184be59a3b6f')  #  01_disable_logout_sound.patch
+        'a434bf282ee391b2f857184be59a3b6f'   #  01_disable_logout_sound.patch
+        '259d02a6fc6a1e2aa8ade4558250e9e4')  #  FIndKactivities.patch
 
 #
 # build function
@@ -44,6 +47,7 @@ build() {
 
 	msg "applying main patchset ..."
 	patch -Np1 -i ${srcdir}/01_disable_logout_sound.patch
+	patch -p1 -i ${srcdir}/FindKactivities.patch
  
 	# copy our branding stuff
 	cp -f ${srcdir}/branding.svgz ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/desktoptheme/oxygen/widgets/