On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 9:59 AM, Didier Roche <[email protected]>
wrote:
Le 17/01/2018 à 09:48, Adam Dingle a écrit :
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 Nautil! us, or us e 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?
Hey Adam.
We actually did, and discussed it in our weekly meeting before
posting to the result of those discussions on the community hub:
https://community.ubuntu.com/t/files-nautilus-v3-28-will-lose-the-desktop-icons-capability/3115/32
(If you are interested into follow ubuntu desktop related topics and
engage with the wider community, I encourage your to follow:
https://community.ubuntu.com/c/desktop/)
Ah, OK - I wasn't aware of the discussion there. Thanks for the
pointer. Good to hear that Bionic will stay with Nautilus 3.26. I'll
follow the community.ubuntu.com site from now on.
Adam
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