diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index f27fb79b2..3db1c66d8 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ git = run_command('test', '-e', '.git', check: false).returncode() == 0
 subdir('scripts')
 subdir('man')
 subdir('data')
+subdir('ui')
 
 if git
   spec_conf = configuration_data({
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 282ba733b..63cfe43a0 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -433,8 +433,6 @@ setuptools.setup(
         "build/virt-xml"]),
 
     data_files=[
-        ("share/virt-manager/ui", glob.glob("ui/*.ui")),
-
         ("share/virt-manager/virtManager", glob.glob("virtManager/*.py")),
         ("share/virt-manager/virtManager/details",
             glob.glob("virtManager/details/*.py")),
diff --git a/ui/meson.build b/ui/meson.build
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a1d543af8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/meson.build
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+ui_files = files(
+  'about.ui',
+  'addhardware.ui',
+  'addstorage.ui',
+  'asyncjob.ui',
+  'clone.ui',
+  'connectauth.ui',
+  'console.ui',
+  'createconn.ui',
+  'createnet.ui',
+  'createpool.ui',
+  'createvm.ui',
+  'createvol.ui',
+  'delete.ui',
+  'details.ui',
+  'fsdetails.ui',
+  'gfxdetails.ui',
+  'hostnets.ui',
+  'hoststorage.ui',
+  'host.ui',
+  'manager.ui',
+  'migrate.ui',
+  'netlist.ui',
+  'oslist.ui',
+  'preferences.ui',
+  'snapshotsnew.ui',
+  'snapshots.ui',
+  'storagebrowse.ui',
+  'tpmdetails.ui',
+  'vmwindow.ui',
+  'vsockdetails.ui',
+  'xmleditor.ui',
+)
+
+install_data(
+  ui_files,
+  install_dir: pkgdir / 'ui'
+)