diff --git a/xdg-desktop-portal.spec b/xdg-desktop-portal.spec
index 5a479fb..b26cd9c 100644
--- a/xdg-desktop-portal.spec
+++ b/xdg-desktop-portal.spec
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 Name:    xdg-desktop-portal
 Version: 1.2.0
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Release: 3%{?dist}
 Summary: Portal frontend service to flatpak
 
 License: LGPLv2+
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ BuildRequires: /usr/bin/xmlto
 BuildRequires: systemd
 Requires:      dbus
 # Required version for icon validator.
-Requires:      flatpak >= 1.2.0
+Recommends:    flatpak >= 1.2.0
 Requires:      geoclue2 >= %{geoclue_version}
 Requires:      pipewire >= %{pipewire_version}
 # Used to validate icons in notifications.
-Requires:      /usr/libexec/flatpak-validate-icon
+Recommends:    /usr/libexec/flatpak-validate-icon
 # Required for the document portal.
 Requires:      /usr/bin/fusermount
 
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@ install -dm 755 %{buildroot}/%{_datadir}/%{name}/portals
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Feb 14 2019 David King <amigadave@amigadave.com> - 1.2.0-3
+- Drop icon validator Requires to Recommends
+
 * Sun Feb 03 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.0-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild