--- a/matchbox-keyboard/files/matchbox-keyboard-0.1-r1-modernize_desktop.patch	
+++ a/matchbox-keyboard/files/matchbox-keyboard-0.1-r1-modernize_desktop.patch	
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ 
+--- matchbox-keyboard.desktop
++++ matchbox-keyboard.desktop.new
+@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
+ Comment=Virtual Keyboard
+ Exec=matchbox-keyboard
+ Type=Application
+-Icon=matchbox-keyboard.png
+-Categories=Panel;Utility;MB
++Icon=matchbox-keyboard
++Categories=Utility;X-MB;X-Panel;
+ X-MB-INPUT-MECHANSIM=True
--- a/matchbox-keyboard-0.1-r1.ebuild	
+++ a/matchbox-keyboard-0.1-r1.ebuild	
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ 
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI="6"
+
+inherit versionator eutils
+
+DESCRIPTION="Matchbox-keyboard is an on screen 'virtual' or 'software' keyboard"
+HOMEPAGE="http://matchbox-project.org/"
+SRC_URI="http://matchbox-project.org/sources/${PN}/$(get_version_component_range 1-2)/${P}.tar.bz2"
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ppc ~x86"
+IUSE="debug cairo"
+
+RDEPEND="x11-libs/libfakekey
+	cairo? ( x11-libs/cairo[X] )
+	!cairo? ( x11-libs/libXft )"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-0.1-r1-modernize_desktop.patch
+
+	eapply_user
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	econf $(use_enable debug) $(use_enable cairo)
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install
+
+	dodoc AUTHORS ChangeLog INSTALL NEWS README
+}
--- a/metadata.xml	
+++ a/metadata.xml	
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@ 
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
 <pkgmetadata>
+        <maintainer type="person">
+                <email>popham@uw.edu</email>
+                <name>Tim Popham</name>
+                <description>Proxied maintainer</description>
+        </maintainer>
+        <maintainer type="project">
+                <email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+                <name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
+        </maintainer>
 </pkgmetadata>