[GTALUG] Heads up: Ubuntu 21.10 kills your desktop icons

[John Weintraub]

You could try installing Ubuntu Mate 21.10, as Mate supports desktop icons.

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 8:49 PM Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> GNOME have finally made good on their threat to remove all support for
> icons on the Desktop. Any files in ~/Desktop no longer produce icons on
> the screen. The GNOME Shell plugin that was the last thing that allowed
> it is no longer supported. GNOME Shell itself seems broken: what was the
> Shell Preferences browser page now bring up a 404 page from gitlab.
>
> As someone who needs constant visual reminders of what he needs to be
> doing, this is a huge blow for me. Desktop icons are a kind of todo list
> for me. My own actual real desktop seldom has flat space on it*: right
> now it's relatively clear, with only 7 different MicroPython development
> boards on it. But in real and virtual life, my desktop is my work in
> progress. I guess GNOME's telling me my work's done now?
>
> I'm not even sure if there are other desktops for Ubuntu any more that
> aren't KDE.
>
> cheers,
>
>   Stewart
>
> *: a real picture from a month ago:
> https://twitter.com/scruss/status/1439765045257383940
>
>
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