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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 17/01/2018 à 09:48, Adam Dingle a
écrit :<br>
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<div>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:</div>
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<div> <a
href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/commit/74dd9c9f72002d482c898a704bb5b95655e35e08"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/commit/74dd9c9f72002d482c898a704bb5b95655e35e08</a></div>
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<div>The reasons for the change are described at</div>
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<div> <a
href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/158"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/158</a>
"Remove desktop support"</div>
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<div>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":</div>
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<div> <a
href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/csoriano/org.gnome.desktop-ico%21%0A%20ns"
moz-do-not-send="true">https
://gitlab.gnome.org/csoriano/org.gnome.desktop-icons</a></div>
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<div>I personally am a bit skeptical about using a GNOME Shell
extension for this, because</div>
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<div>1) I doubt it will implement a desktop that looks/behaves
exactly like Nautilus windows, and I value consistency.</div>
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<div>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).</div>
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<div>In any case, it looks like Ubuntu has these choices:</div>
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<div>1. Drop support for desktop icons, like in upstream GNOME.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>3. Fork Nautil! us, or us e an externally maintained fork
such as Nemo (which itself might however have dependencies
from Cinnamon).</div>
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<div>4. Switch to a different file manager.</div>
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<div>Has Ubuntu decided which of these paths to follow in 18.04
Bionic, and beyond?</div>
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Hey Adam.<br>
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We actually did, and discussed it in our weekly meeting before
posting to the result of those discussions on the community hub:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://community.ubuntu.com/t/files-nautilus-v3-28-will-lose-the-desktop-icons-capability/3115/32">https://community.ubuntu.com/t/files-nautilus-v3-28-will-lose-the-desktop-icons-capability/3115/32</a><br>
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(If you are interested into follow ubuntu desktop related topics and
engage with the wider community, I encourage your to follow:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://community.ubuntu.com/c/desktop/">https://community.ubuntu.com/c/desktop/</a>)<br>
Cheers,<br>
Didier<br>
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