Comment 38 for bug 1813441

Hi Jonathan,

I'm happy to start a dialogue about this issue.

1. It's great to hear that the problem will be fixed in 21.04. Maybe a backport to the 20.04 LTS should be considered as well?

2. I know, I don't have problems with fixing things by myself, per se. I'm irritated that this was not a "corner case" that a few will people will even notice. It's a "show stopper" bug. I'm criticizing the *decision making* here.

3. Yes, I realize that's GNOME's fault. So, the solution was to simply stick to the older version of GNOME, wasn't it? It's a BAD idea to upgrade to the latest version of XYZ, when it's broken, in particular when we're talking about an LTS release, that's supposed to be super-stable. That's simply *bad judgement*. Of course Canonical cannot fix every GNOME bug, I totally agree. I'm a very practical person. Just, don't upgrade the package; it's simple as that. A Linux distribution maintainers' main job is choose carefully which version each software package to include in the distro. The typical questions are: "is the package XYZ stable enough for our release?", "shall we use libxyz 1.23 instead of libxyz 1.22 to fix the problem PR123, but risking to break something else?".

Also, did "desktop-icons-ng-ding" exist in 2020 before the release of the LTS? Not a rhetorical question, I honestly don't know. If it did, than the LTS should have included it. Otherwise, the LTS should have just used the older version of GNOME. No matter how you put it, no technical reason justifies breaking this way the user interface. Again, if it were something affecting < 1% of the users, I would have understood. But not in this case. It's not a glitch hidden somewhere, it's one of the first things people notice after installing Ubuntu. I noticed it in a matter of minutes. It's *NOT* a problem of resources, it's a decision-making problem.

Vlad