desktop icons removed from Nautilus

[Adam Dingle]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 9:59 AM, Didier Roche <didrocks at ubuntu.com> 
wrote:
> Le 17/01/2018 à 09:48, Adam Dingle a écrit :
>> As many of you are probably aware, Nautilus in master can no longer 
>> display icons on the desktop.   This change landed in Nautilus 
>> master on January 2nd:
>> 
>>        
>> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/commit/74dd9c9f72002d482c898a704bb5b95655e35e08
>> 
>> The reasons for the change are described at
>> 
>>     https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/158 "Remove 
>> desktop support"
>> 
>> That page says that it might be possible to develop a GNOME Shell 
>> extension to display desktop icons instead, and points to a 
>> prototype implementation which is in a "very early stage":
>> 
>>     https ://gitlab.gnome.org/csoriano/org.gnome.desktop-icons
>> 
>> I personally am a bit skeptical about using a GNOME Shell extension 
>> for this, because
>> 
>> 1) I doubt it will implement a desktop that looks/behaves exactly 
>> like Nautilus windows, and I value consistency.
>> 
>> 2) it seems unlikely that it will implement all the Nautilus 
>> extensions that I commonly use (e.g. nautilus-image-converter, 
>> nautilus-fileroller) including property pages currently implemented 
>> in C (e.g.  libevince-properties-page, libtotem-properties-page).
>> 
>> In any case, it looks like Ubuntu has these choices:
>> 
>> 1. Drop support for desktop icons, like in upstream GNOME.
>> 
>> 2. Use a shell extension to provide desktop icons.  This is a large 
>> undertaking, and Canonical might need to implement this if nobody 
>> else steps up to the plate.
>> 
>> 3. Fork Nautil! us, or us e an externally maintained fork such as 
>> Nemo (which itself might however have dependencies from Cinnamon).
>> 
>> 4. Switch to a different file manager.
>> 
>> Has Ubuntu decided which of these paths to follow in 18.04 Bionic, 
>> and beyond?
> 
> Hey Adam.
> 
> We actually did, and discussed it in our weekly meeting before 
> posting to the result of those discussions on the community hub: 
> https://community.ubuntu.com/t/files-nautilus-v3-28-will-lose-the-desktop-icons-capability/3115/32
> 
> (If you are interested into follow ubuntu desktop related topics and 
> engage with the wider community, I encourage your to follow: 
> https://community.ubuntu.com/c/desktop/)

Ah, OK - I wasn't aware of the discussion there.  Thanks for the 
pointer.  Good to hear that Bionic will stay with Nautilus 3.26.  I'll 
follow the community.ubuntu.com site from now on.

Adam
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