diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/evolution/evolution/wrapper.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/evolution/evolution/wrapper.nix
index 7837393926f6..0a4a4a9d7797 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/evolution/evolution/wrapper.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/mailreaders/evolution/evolution/wrapper.nix
@@ -7,10 +7,16 @@ symlinkJoin {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
 
   postBuild = ''
+    declare -a schemas;
+    for plugin in ${toString plugins}; do
+      for schema in $plugin/share/gsettings-schemas/*; do
+        schemas+=($schema);
+      done
+    done
     for i in $out/bin/* $out/libexec/**; do
     if [ ! -d $i ]; then
       echo wrapping $i
-      wrapProgram $i --set EDS_EXTRA_PREFIXES "${lib.concatStringsSep ":" plugins}"
+      wrapProgram $i --set EDS_EXTRA_PREFIXES "${lib.concatStringsSep ":" plugins}" --prefix XDG_DATA_DIRS : "''${schemas[@]}"
     fi
     done