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@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@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 > > --- > Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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