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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