As many of you are probably aware, Nautilus in master can no longer
display icons on the desktop. This change landed in Nautilus master
on January 2nd:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/commit/74dd9c9f72002d482c898a704bb5b95655e35e08
The reasons for the change are described at
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/158 "Remove desktop
support"
That page says that it might be possible to develop a GNOME Shell
extension to display desktop icons instead, and points to a prototype
implementation which is in a "very early stage":
https://gitlab.gnome.org/csoriano/org.gnome.desktop-icons
I personally am a bit skeptical about using a GNOME Shell extension for
this, because
1) I doubt it will implement a desktop that looks/behaves exactly like
Nautilus windows, and I value consistency.
2) it seems unlikely that it will implement all the Nautilus extensions
that I commonly use (e.g. nautilus-image-converter,
nautilus-fileroller) including property pages currently implemented in
C (e.g. libevince-properties-page, libtotem-properties-page).
In any case, it looks like Ubuntu has these choices:
1. Drop support for desktop icons, like in upstream GNOME.
2. Use a shell extension to provide desktop icons. This is a large
undertaking, and Canonical might need to implement this if nobody else
steps up to the plate.
3. Fork Nautilus, or use an externally maintained fork such as Nemo
(which itself might however have dependencies from Cinnamon).
4. Switch to a different file manager.
Has Ubuntu decided which of these paths to follow in 18.04 Bionic, and
beyond?
Adam
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