Please backport Desktop Icons NG to 20.04
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After testing Hirsute for a bit, I am convinced that Desktop Icons NG fixes a large and frustrating usability issue on the LTS desktop. It’s a wonderful restoration of functionality that I still trip over myself expecting from “muscle memory” in 20.04, but being reminded that I can’t do simple things like drag and drop.
I have read some others suggestions to just install the extension oneself, and upon investigation, I found that it wasn’t a very clear process. Even Igor at dedoimedo.com had issues with going this route -> https:/
For these reasons, I am hoping that someone out there (hopefully more than one) agrees that replacing the current desktop icons package in 20.04 would only help those on an LTS desktop. As excited as I am for the interim releases (especially concerning Wayland and Pipewire), I don’t want to move away from a well-supported release to have a desktop that we could have (and I feel should have) in 20.04. I know that some work would be involved, but I for one would be very grateful, for what it’s worth.
Thanks to all for your time.
tags: | added: rls-ff-incoming |
affects: | focal-backports → ubuntu |
no longer affects: | ubuntu |
Questions to the desktop team:
* Can a package in focal-backports, which is not present in focal-release, be promoted to main?
* Can a main package depend on a package in -backports?