diff --git a/eek/eek-serializable.c b/eek/eek-serializable.c
deleted file mode 100644
index fed00ae0..00000000
--- a/eek/eek-serializable.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Peng Huang <shawn.p.huang@gmail.com>
- * Copyright (C) 2008-2010 Red Hat, Inc.
- *
- * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
- * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This library 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
- * Lesser General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
- * License along with this library; if not, write to the
- * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
- */
-
-/**
- * SECTION:eek-serializable
- * @short_description: Interface which provides object serialization
- * into #GVariant
- *
- * The #EekSerializableIface interface defines serialize/deserialize
- * method.
- */
-
-#include "config.h"
-
-#include "eek-serializable.h"
-
-GType
-eek_serializable_get_type (void)
-{
-    static GType iface_type = 0;
-    if (iface_type == 0) {
-        static GTypeInfo info = {
-            .class_size = sizeof (EekSerializableIface)
-        };
-        iface_type = g_type_register_static (G_TYPE_INTERFACE,
-                                             "EekSerializable",
-                                             &info, 0);
-    }
-    return iface_type;
-}
-
-GVariant *
-eek_serializable_serialize (EekSerializable *object)
-{
-    GVariantBuilder builder;
-
-    g_return_val_if_fail (EEK_IS_SERIALIZABLE (object), FALSE);
-
-    g_variant_builder_init (&builder, G_VARIANT_TYPE_TUPLE);
-    g_variant_builder_add (&builder, "s", g_type_name (G_OBJECT_TYPE (object)));
-    EEK_SERIALIZABLE_GET_IFACE (object)->serialize (object, &builder);
-
-    return g_variant_builder_end (&builder);
-}
-
-EekSerializable *
-eek_serializable_deserialize (GVariant *variant)
-{
-    gchar *type_name = NULL;
-    GType type;
-    EekSerializable *object;
-    gsize index = 0;
-
-    g_return_val_if_fail (variant != NULL, NULL);
-
-    g_variant_get_child (variant, index++, "&s", &type_name);
-    type = g_type_from_name (type_name);
-
-    g_return_val_if_fail (g_type_is_a (type, EEK_TYPE_SERIALIZABLE), NULL);
-
-    object = g_object_new (type, NULL);
-
-    index = EEK_SERIALIZABLE_GET_IFACE (object)->deserialize (object,
-                                                              variant,
-                                                              index);
-    if (index < 0) {
-        g_object_unref (object);
-        g_return_val_if_reached (NULL);
-    }
-
-    return object;
-}
diff --git a/eek/eek-serializable.h b/eek/eek-serializable.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 20950ce4..00000000
--- a/eek/eek-serializable.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-/* 
- * Copyright (C) 2011 Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>
- * Copyright (C) 2011 Red Hat, Inc.
- * 
- * 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/>.
- */
-
-#if !defined(__EEK_H_INSIDE__) && !defined(EEK_COMPILATION)
-#error "Only <eek/eek.h> can be included directly."
-#endif
-
-#ifndef EEK_SERIALIZABLE_H
-#define EEK_SERIALIZABLE_H 1
-
-#include <glib-object.h>
-
-G_BEGIN_DECLS
-
-#define EEK_TYPE_SERIALIZABLE (eek_serializable_get_type())
-#define EEK_SERIALIZABLE(obj) (G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_CAST ((obj), EEK_TYPE_SERIALIZABLE, EekSerializable))
-#define EEK_IS_SERIALIZABLE(obj) (G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE_TYPE ((obj), EEK_TYPE_SERIALIZABLE))
-#define EEK_SERIALIZABLE_GET_IFACE(obj) (G_TYPE_INSTANCE_GET_INTERFACE ((obj), EEK_TYPE_SERIALIZABLE, EekSerializableIface))
-
-typedef struct _EekSerializable EekSerializable;
-typedef struct _EekSerializableIface EekSerializableIface;
-
-/**
- * EekSerializableIface:
- *
- * @serialize: virtual function for serializing object into #GVariant
- * @deserialize: virtual function for deserializing object from #GVariant
- */
-struct _EekSerializableIface
-{
-    /*< private >*/
-    GTypeInterface parent_iface;
-
-    void  (* serialize)   (EekSerializable       *object,
-                           GVariantBuilder       *builder);
-    gsize (* deserialize) (EekSerializable       *object,
-                           GVariant              *variant,
-                           gsize                  index);
-
-    /*< private >*/
-    /* padding */
-    gpointer pdummy[24];
-};
-
-GType            eek_serializable_get_type    (void);
-
-GVariant        *eek_serializable_serialize   (EekSerializable *object);
-EekSerializable *eek_serializable_deserialize (GVariant        *variant);
-
-G_END_DECLS
-#endif  /* EEK_SERIALIZABLE_H */
diff --git a/eek/eek.h b/eek/eek.h
index 44f16c51..1b788273 100644
--- a/eek/eek.h
+++ b/eek/eek.h
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@
 #include "eek-section.h"
 #include "eek-layout.h"
 #include "eek-keysym.h"
-#include "eek-serializable.h"
 
 void eek_init (void);
 
diff --git a/src/meson.build b/src/meson.build
index 443f7cb8..51efe888 100644
--- a/src/meson.build
+++ b/src/meson.build
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ sources = [
   '../eek/eek-layout.c',
   '../eek/eek-renderer.c',
   '../eek/eek-section.c',
-  '../eek/eek-serializable.c',
   '../eek/eek-types.c',
   '../eek/eek-xml-layout.c',
   '../eek/layersurface.c',