diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/java/visualvm/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/java/visualvm/default.nix
index a71ee53dced9..2eeefb23e042 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/java/visualvm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/java/visualvm/default.nix
@@ -1,27 +1,27 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchzip, lib, makeWrapper, jdk, gtk2, gawk }:
+{ stdenv, fetchzip, lib, makeWrapper, makeDesktopItem, jdk, gtk2, gawk }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "visualvm-1.3.9";
+  version = "1.4";
+  name = "visualvm-${version}";
 
   src = fetchzip {
-    url = "https://github.com/visualvm/visualvm.src/releases/download/1.3.9/visualvm_139.zip";
-    sha256 = "1gkdkxssh51jczhgv680i42jjrlia1vbpcqhxvf45xcq9xj95bm5";
+    url = "https://github.com/visualvm/visualvm.src/releases/download/${version}/visualvm_${builtins.replaceStrings ["."] [""]  version}.zip";
+    sha256 = "0qpkal3yc8c8di4dmdglq54a4m7hciqximn5n6hwx2zqnfwx909z";
+  };
+
+  desktopItem = makeDesktopItem {
+      name = "visualvm";
+      exec = "visualvm";
+      comment = "Java Troubleshooting Tool";
+      desktopName = "VisualVM";
+      genericName = "Java Troubleshooting Tool";
+      categories = "Application;Development;";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ makeWrapper ];
 
   installPhase = ''
-    rm bin/visualvm.exe
-    rm platform/lib/nbexec64.exe
-    rm platform/lib/nbexec.exe
-    rm profiler/lib/deployed/jdk15/windows-amd64/profilerinterface.dll
-    rm profiler/lib/deployed/jdk15/windows/profilerinterface.dll
-    rm profiler/lib/deployed/jdk16/windows-amd64/profilerinterface.dll
-    rm profiler/lib/deployed/jdk16/windows/profilerinterface.dll
-    rm platform/modules/lib/amd64/jnidispatch-410.dll
-    rm platform/modules/lib/x86/jnidispatch-410.dll
-    rm platform/lib/nbexec.dll
-    rm platform/lib/nbexec64.dll
+    find . -type f -name "*.dll" -o -name "*.exe"  -delete;
 
     substituteInPlace etc/visualvm.conf \
       --replace "#visualvm_jdkhome=" "visualvm_jdkhome=" \
@@ -50,6 +50,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     homepage = https://visualvm.java.net/;
     license = licenses.gpl2ClasspathPlus;
     platforms = platforms.all;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ michalrus ];
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ michalrus moaxcp ];
   };
 }