wayland: desktop folder missing in Nautilus sidebar

[corrado venturini]

Using Wayland session nautilus home window does not show Desktop folder in sidebar while is dispayed using X11 session.
see attachment.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: nautilus 1:3.36.1.1-1ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 5.7.0-050700rc3-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Apr 28 17:24:45 2020
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.window-state' b'initial-size' b'(1059, 852)'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-23 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_nautilus:

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, that's a known issue in GTK, https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2569

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

Same problem on Ubuntu 20.10

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

Now Ubuntu 21.04 uses Wayland as default so this problem should be solved if we want Wayland perform as X11

[Santiago Fernández Núñez (santiagofn)]

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/2569 has been closed. The final comment says "the gtk-shell-shows-desktop capability is sent from the Shell on Wayland, so it's entirely up to the shell to determine whether or not the desktop is available".

So: who is responsibly for fixing this? Is it something that depends on the Ubuntu implementation or something that Gnome doesn't want to fix?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Reading their comment they suggest that Gtk is doing the right thing but gnome-shell is the one setting the key value on wayland and currently always claiming that desktop isn't handled. The suggestion is that gnome-shell should be updated, or maybe the desktop extension if it's technical doable for it to override the value. Reassigning to gnome-shell as a first step now. Ideally someone would report it upstream on the shell or desktop icons extension to get their opinion

[Santiago Fernández Núñez (santiagofn)]

This also affects the recently launched Ubuntu 21.10.

Reported a bug to GNOME Shell: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/4730

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

Problem remains in Wayland session for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04 and 22.10.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Santiago Fernández Núñez (santiagofn)]

As long as I can tell, there isn't any fix released in GTK. The bug I opened is still, well, open: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/1985

[Coeur Noir (coeur-noir)]

Still true and broken in 22.04
duplicate → https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1986463

[corrado venturini (corradoventu)]

still broken in 22.10

[Santiago Fernández Núñez (santiagofn)]

Still broken in 23.04 (Kinetic)

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1875671