diff --git a/protocols/idle.xml b/protocols/idle.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 92d9989c7..000000000
--- a/protocols/idle.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<protocol name="idle">
-  <copyright><![CDATA[
-    Copyright (C) 2015 Martin Gräßlin
-
-    This program 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 2.1 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.
-
-    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
-    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-  ]]></copyright>
-  <interface  name="org_kde_kwin_idle" version="1">
-      <description summary="User idle time manager">
-        This interface allows to monitor user idle time on a given seat. The interface
-        allows to register timers which trigger after no user activity was registered
-        on the seat for a given interval. It notifies when user activity resumes.
-
-        This is useful for applications wanting to perform actions when the user is not
-        interacting with the system, e.g. chat applications setting the user as away, power
-        management features to dim screen, etc..
-      </description>
-      <request name="get_idle_timeout">
-        <arg name="id" type="new_id" interface="org_kde_kwin_idle_timeout"/>
-        <arg name="seat" type="object" interface="wl_seat"/>
-        <arg name="timeout" type="uint" summary="The idle timeout in msec"/>
-      </request>
-  </interface>
-  <interface name="org_kde_kwin_idle_timeout" version="1">
-      <request name="release" type="destructor">
-        <description summary="release the timeout object"/>
-      </request>
-      <request name="simulate_user_activity">
-          <description summary="Simulates user activity for this timeout, behaves just like real user activity on the seat"/>
-      </request>
-      <event name="idle">
-          <description summary="Triggered when there has not been any user activity in the requested idle time interval"/>
-      </event>
-      <event name="resumed">
-          <description summary="Triggered on the first user activity after an idle event"/>
-      </event>
-  </interface>
-</protocol>
diff --git a/protocols/meson.build b/protocols/meson.build
index e7ada59b8..a1cb35344 100644
--- a/protocols/meson.build
+++ b/protocols/meson.build
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ protocols = [
 	wl_protocol_dir / 'staging/cursor-shape/cursor-shape-v1.xml',
 	wl_protocol_dir / 'unstable/xdg-output/xdg-output-unstable-v1.xml',
 	'wlr-layer-shell-unstable-v1.xml',
-	'idle.xml',
 	'wlr-output-power-management-unstable-v1.xml',
 ]