Public bug reported:

[Impact]

 * After upstream Nautilus has reverted the following commit [1] related
to upstream bug [2] the desktop icons extension lost it's ability to
copy to/from nautilus.

 * This is related to the fact that before there was some metadata
passed along in the clipboard along with text data. This was causing
issues with compatibility with some applications that were not expecting
any metadata (MIME type in this case) was glued to the text clipboard
contents. Hence, it was reverted upstream [3].

 * Fixing the root cause of this issue required changes to Nautilus [3],
gnome-shell [4] and desktop-icons [5] [6]. Nautilus and gnome-shell
parts are already implemented and present in Hirsute and Impish.


[Test Plan]

 1) Make sure desktop-icons extension is enabled.
 2) Open nautilus window and copy any file from there by right-clicking and 
selecting "Copy" from the popup menu.
 3) Right-click on desktop and select "Paste" from the context menu.

Expected result: selected file is copied to the desktop.
Actual result: "Paste" item is disabled in the menu.

[Where problems could occur]

 * Mixing a version of nautilus without commit [3] and fixed version of
desktop-icons may still lead to a scenario when copying will not work.

 * Any extension/application copying to desktop using the smuggled-in-
text clipboard behavior should be expected to stop working.

[Other Info]

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/289
[2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/634
[3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/573
[4] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1321
[5] 
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/desktop-icons/-/merge_requests/186
[6] 
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/desktop-icons/-/merge_requests/195

** Affects: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: New

** Affects: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons (Ubuntu Hirsute)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: New

** Affects: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons (Ubuntu Impish)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: New

** Also affects: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons (Ubuntu Impish)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons (Ubuntu Hirsute)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons (Ubuntu Impish)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons (Ubuntu Hirsute)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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  Copying and pasting to/from Nautilus does not work

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