Desktop isn't part of "places" (left bar) in artful

[Merlijn Sebrechts]

Artful re-enabled the desktop, but it is not showing up in the left bar of nautilus [This used to be called "places"?].

I'm talking about this bar: https://pasteboard.co/GMqxauJ.png

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Merlijn Sebrechts (merlijn-sebrechts)]

@Sebastien, I'm not sure if you read the bug report, but I don't think this is an upstream issue.

Upstream Gnome explicitly disabled the Desktop. I don't think they'd be too happy getting bug reports about this.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Well they provide the option and it's used in GNOME classic so it's somewhat their issue...

[Merlijn Sebrechts (merlijn-sebrechts)]

Upstream bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/62

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mario Vukelic (kreuzsakra)]

Still the same in Cosmic. In the upstream bug it does not seem that they want to add it back by default (as expected really), so I'd think it's up to Ubuntu if files on desktop remain in contrast to upstream.

"António Fernandes @antoniof · 8 months ago
Developer

The Desktop folder should become bookmarkable: #187 (closed)
Starting with version 3.28, nautilus will not handle the "files on desktop background" feature."

The #187 is closed because bookmarking is already possible.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/187

However, bookmarking is a poor replacement:
- It gets listed in the bookmarks section, far away from Home and Documents where it really belongs as a central feature of file management in Ubuntu.
- As bookmark, he icon (in Cosmic) has black & white outline style which is inconsistent with the prominent colorful Desktop icon that is shown inside the Home folder

[Mario Vukelic (kreuzsakra)]

Just realized that Gnome 3.30 and/or the new theme in Cosmic shows all "Places" icons in black & white, so bookmarking makes no difference to this. Though the inconsistency with the colorful icon in the Home folder remains

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The desktop entry is listed in the current versions

[Olivier Febwin (febcrash)]

not on wayland session

[Mario Vukelic (kreuzsakra)]

Confirming what Olivier wrote, I see it in X but not Wayland

[Mario Vukelic (kreuzsakra)]

(This is in Disco, nautilus 1:3.31.90-1ubuntu2)