[Bug 1722688] Re: GNOME desktop isn't a desktop.

2017-10-30 Thread Daniel van Vugt
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1710931 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1710931 Wayland is the architecture we want to use going into the future. Wayland is also still relatively new compared to X11 (which is almost 30 years older). So there's a lot of catching up to do in the various

[Bug 1722688] Re: GNOME desktop isn't a desktop.

2017-10-30 Thread tom
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1710931 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1710931 I figured it was a GNOME design choice. That is interesting. In general, Wayland seems to be a great source of pain and breakage. Does it have any large advantages? So far, I've only experienced more pain i

[Bug 1722688] Re: GNOME desktop isn't a desktop.

2017-10-30 Thread Daniel van Vugt
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1710931 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1710931 It's one of those Gnome design choices about cleanliness and minimalism. It appears Ubuntu in general disagrees with that choice so 17.10 enables the desktop icons. Interestingly nautilus-desktop is an X ap

[Bug 1722688] Re: GNOME desktop isn't a desktop.

2017-10-30 Thread tom
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1710931 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1710931 That was it Daniel. Thank you. Quite bizarre to disable desktop by default. Any idea why GNOME chooses to disable normal desktop behavior by default? ** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Status: Incom

[Bug 1722688] Re: GNOME desktop isn't a desktop.

2017-10-30 Thread Sebastien Bacher
** Changed in: gnome-shell (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1722688 Title: GNOME desktop isn't a desktop. To manage noti

[Bug 1722688] Re: GNOME desktop isn't a desktop.

2017-10-30 Thread Daniel van Vugt
Files and folders on the desktop ('nautilus-desktop') is enabled by default in Ubuntu 17.10. Your system might have got it disabled for some reason, or you might be using the default Gnome theme where it's probably still disabled by default. Either way, the setting you want is: Gnome Tweak Tool >