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
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