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

[Evan Leibovitch]

Thank you all for reminding me that I have done the right thing by never
installing GNOME if an alternative is available.
One would think that "the developers know better than end-users what users
want" attitude would have softened over the years.
Apparently not.

KDE is big and bloated and sometimes overkill, but it never insults its
users. I have also found MATE to be a kinder, gentler, less user-hostile
version of GNOME and my second choice as a desktop.

Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
@evanleibovitch / @el56


On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 at 09:59, John Weintraub via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> 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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