diff --git a/lib/CloseButton.vala b/lib/CloseButton.vala
index a414b833f..fc69bea68 100644
--- a/lib/CloseButton.vala
+++ b/lib/CloseButton.vala
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ public class Gala.CloseButton : Clutter.Actor {
         if (close_pixbufs[height] == null) {
             try {
                 close_pixbufs[height] = new Gdk.Pixbuf.from_resource_at_scale (
-                    Config.RESOURCEPATH + "/buttons/close.svg",
+                    "/org/pantheon/desktop/gala/buttons/close.svg",
                     -1,
                     height,
                     true
diff --git a/lib/Utils.vala b/lib/Utils.vala
index 521ea85d6..8d89601df 100644
--- a/lib/Utils.vala
+++ b/lib/Utils.vala
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ namespace Gala {
             if (resize_pixbufs[height] == null) {
                 try {
                     resize_pixbufs[height] = new Gdk.Pixbuf.from_resource_at_scale (
-                        Config.RESOURCEPATH + "/buttons/resize.svg",
+                        "/org/pantheon/desktop/gala/buttons/resize.svg",
                         -1,
                         height,
                         true
diff --git a/lib/meson.build b/lib/meson.build
index 7b8ec254a..5ef16c7f5 100644
--- a/lib/meson.build
+++ b/lib/meson.build
@@ -71,9 +71,5 @@ pkg.generate(
     name: 'Gala',
     description: 'Library to develop plugins for Gala',
     subdirs: 'gala',
-    requires: [glib_dep, gobject_dep, gio_dep, gio_unix_dep, libmutter_dep],
-    variables: [
-        'datarootdir=${prefix}/@0@'.format(get_option('datadir')),
-        'pkgdatadir=${datarootdir}/gala'
-    ]
+    requires: [glib_dep, gobject_dep, gio_dep, gio_unix_dep, libmutter_dep]
 )
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 96ae7a72c..f1b4dbb09 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ project('gala',
     license: 'GPL3',
 )
 
-is_release = false
-
 gnome = import('gnome')
 i18n = import('i18n')
 pkg = import('pkgconfig')
@@ -18,16 +16,11 @@ vapi_dir = meson.current_source_dir() / 'vapi'
 locale_dir = join_paths(get_option('prefix'), get_option('localedir'))
 data_dir = join_paths(get_option('prefix'), get_option('datadir'))
 plugins_dir = join_paths(get_option('prefix'), get_option('libdir'), meson.project_name(), 'plugins')
-pkgdata_dir = join_paths(get_option('prefix'), get_option('datadir'), meson.project_name())
-pkglib_dir = join_paths(get_option('prefix'), get_option('libdir'), meson.project_name())
 
 conf = configuration_data()
 conf.set_quoted('GETTEXT_PACKAGE', meson.project_name())
 conf.set_quoted('LOCALEDIR', locale_dir)
-conf.set_quoted('DATADIR', data_dir)
-conf.set_quoted('PKGDATADIR', pkgdata_dir)
 conf.set_quoted('PLUGINDIR', plugins_dir)
-conf.set_quoted('RESOURCEPATH', '/org/pantheon/desktop/gala')
 conf.set_quoted('VERSION', meson.project_version())
 config_h = configure_file(
     output: 'config.h',
@@ -41,9 +34,6 @@ config_dep = declare_dependency(
 
 config_inc_dir = include_directories('.')
 
-customconf = configuration_data()
-customconf.set('GETTEXT_PACKAGE', meson.project_name())
-
 add_project_arguments([
         '--target-glib=2.44',
         '--hide-internal',
diff --git a/vapi/config.vapi b/vapi/config.vapi
index c2639b4ba..b81dfbf7b 100644
--- a/vapi/config.vapi
+++ b/vapi/config.vapi
@@ -1,28 +1,14 @@
-//
-//  Copyright (C) 2011 Robert Dyer, Rico Tzschichholz
-//
-//  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-//  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-//  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-//  (at your option) any later version.
-//
-//  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-//  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-//  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-//  GNU General Public License for more details.
-//
-//  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-//  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-//
+/*
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 elementary, Inc. (https://elementary.io)
+ *                         2011 Robert Dyer
+ *                         2011 Rico Tzschichholz
+ */
 
 [CCode (cprefix = "", lower_case_cprefix = "", cheader_filename = "config.h")]
-namespace Config
-{
+namespace Config {
 	public const string GETTEXT_PACKAGE;
 	public const string LOCALEDIR;
-	public const string DATADIR;
-	public const string PKGDATADIR;
 	public const string VERSION;
 	public const string PLUGINDIR;
-	public const string RESOURCEPATH;
 }