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@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 > > > --- > Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- John Weintraub #333-7451 Moffatt Rd. Richmond BC Canada V6Y 3W3 604-813-9830 johnweintr...@gmail.com
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