It's because 'Ubuntu on Wayland' is an officially supported option in
Ubuntu 20.04. We wouldn't want the desktop icons to just be missing in
that session.
** Also affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu Impish)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu Jammy)
> Note also that we can't consider DING for inclusion in Ubuntu 20.04
focal because to render in Wayland sessions it requires mutter 3.38 or
later.
DING works perfectly for me:
Ubuntu 20.04
Mutter 3.36.9
Gnome 3.36.8
DING version 17 (according to the metadata.json file)
Ubuntu 20.04 doesn't use
Note also that we can't consider DING for inclusion in Ubuntu 20.04
focal because to render in Wayland sessions it requires mutter 3.38 or
later.
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The Desktop Icons NG extension is installed by default in Ubuntu 21.10.
** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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I also run Desktop Icons NG, and agree that it is superior to the the
original Desktop Icons extension. Even if the original version is still
supported, my impression is that the NG version is more actively
maintained and is the focus of the author's development efforts.
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Title:
Please replace default Gnome extension "Desktop
@seb128 — Hmm, maybe I'm wrong about it being maintained. It's just that
it shows a lower level of compatibility in its Extensions listing. Sorry
if I was wrong.
I don't recall where specifically I have came across the recommendation
for NG, but I found it referenced in several places when I was
Thank you for your bug report, did upstream recommend somewhere
(reference?) to use NG? What makes you state that the current one is
unmaintained, https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/desktop-
icons/ shows recent commits
** Changed in: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons (Ubuntu)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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