The reasons presented a good and valid i think. However, removing the functionality before a replacement is ready is very gnomey decision that I consider harmful. The Desktop metaphor works since decades and many users rely on it in the every day work and organizing their work. I use it as a sort of ToDo list, for example to quickly paste some pictures from my camera before properly sorting them… similar to how I use my real desk.
I hope Ubuntu Bionic Beaver will have a replacement ready before removing the functionality.
Edit: Sorry, I missed this reply:
Maybe once we do update to latest nautilus and start using the extension for desktop icons, we can get away from having desktop icon increase in size when we make folders and files larger in nautilus. Good write up @didrocks. Thanks.
First, awesome write ups, solid decision. I’ve got a little bit of a different question I think.
I’ve been a gnome shell user for a long time and prefer that experience but with the merging of Ubuntu Gnome into Ubuntu I’ve know that’s secondary to Canonical’s direction. Again not faulting, your making the right decision for your product.
Getting to the point, I’m not sure what features nautilus 3.28 might have but will there be a way to get a clean latest gnome experience or will we just need to wait till fall?
If I understand you correctly - I think you’re looking for the ‘vanilla-gnome-session’.
I to have been using gnome-shell for some time, (since it’s second iteration). Didn’t like it at first, (actually hated is the better word) but after a month of daily use, I found that I couldn’t go back to a conventional desktop. So I really do appreciate the Gnome-Devs and their HIGs. They do know what they’re doing and it seems they backup at least some of their design decisions by analysing user data. But … I’m digressing.
I’m running a “vanilla” experience on artful so I get that. Let me ask a different way. Will there be a official PPA or some other method for running nautilus 3.28 without the changes to other systems that @didrocks mentioned needing to support using 3.26? Something like how the Kubuntu team provides access to the latest KDE releases maybe though obviously at a smaller scale.
This isn’t a big deal just trying to understand and set my expectations. Thanks!
We didn’t discuss about it yet as we discuss new version and upgrades later in the cycle, you can follow our weekly meeting on IRC, on #ubuntu-desktop (freenode) 13:30 UTC on Tuesday.
As an aside - DesktopFolder also works on GNOME-Shell so this gives an alternative for X11 (not fully wayland compatible) users from using the gnome-shell-extension in development.
So - assuming we can get DesktopFolder into Debian --> Ubuntu repos, Ubuntu Budgie would warmly support moving to Nautilus 3.32.
For Unity-7, I updated the patches for Nautilus and testing Nemo-Desktop (only the desktop portion). It actually works well. It has accounts-service integration and can be made to play well with Gnome.
Another fresh discovery for 18.04 LTS (!!!) and 18.10 is that user can not install deb-packages with GDebi Package Installer from Desktop. See question on AskUbuntu and bug 1807761 at launchpad.
What are you doing?
Why I can’t simply copy desktop-file from /usr/share/applications, make and executable and show its icon on the desktop?
Why I get blind icon ( )
instead of normal one ( )?
Why are you inventing extensions over extensions over extensions?
Such functionality was here for years!
Are you sure that you can teach all business oriented users with new non-intuitive habits?
For whom are you developing this enterprise grade operating system with 10 years support?
No pressure though.
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