Comment 36 for bug 1813441

Guys, this is a *BRUTAL* regression. It's NOT acceptable to break the desktop experience like that in a LTS release because "the legacy code was unmaintainable". Either replace the legacy code with a mature, well-written extension which works *exactly* the same way, or continue to maintain the old dirty (whatever) code, until you have a VALID replacement.

You're *under-estimating* the impact of such a bug. Desktop icons have been "a thing" for the last 30 years or so and are the first thing any user sees. And I'm not talking only about non-technical people: I'm talking about people like me that have been using Linux since 1998. Now, not only arrow keys and drag'n'drop don't work, but even just creating or deleting a file on the desktop causes an ugly refresh. Sometimes, just moving an icon causes the whole gnome shell to crash.

I was hoping this bug would be fixed ASAP after the 20.04 release or, at most, for the 20.10 release, but still nothing. And, no, I don't wanna use dirty workarounds which will break on upgrade. I'd like an officially-supported fix.

For instabilities like these "the world" stopped using KDE 4 and switched to GNOME. Even MANY years later now, with KDE perfectly stable etc., people still use GNOME. Do you really want to loose the desktop segment? People will stop using Ubuntu for things like that.

This bug's "Importance" should be: "VERY HIGH", not "Medium".