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

[steve at linuxsuite.org]

           My workaround is to stay on Ubuntu 18...

         -steve

> 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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