Comment 15 for bug 1813441

I didn't realize my bug was a duplicate (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1875125).

This is a big issue for desktop users, I almost rolled back immediately.
I'll still be rolling back due to other bugs I've found since Friday, but in the meantime I did find a slightly better way of working around the issue for 20.04 which I had posted in my bug post. I'll repost it here:

In /usr/share/gnome-shell/modes/ there is a json file ubuntu.json. It has a list of enabled extensions one of which is the desktop-icons extension. It looks like this:

{
    "parentMode": "user",
    "stylesheetName": "Yaru/gnome-shell.css",
    "themeResourceName": "theme/Yaru/gnome-shell-theme.gresource",
    "debugFlags": ["backtrace-crashes-all"],
    "enabledExtensions": ["<email address hidden>", "<email address hidden>", "desktop-icons@csoriano"]
}

Editing ubuntu.json and removing the entry and extra comma for desktop-icons, disables the extension from a single point. After that working around the issue using nemo provides desktop icons, delete hotkeys, and drag/drop functionality that was previously non-functional.