Comment 4 for bug 1878392

Thank you for the youtube video, it helps understanding the issue.

It seems the icons get in a non working state for you sometime, which doesn't happen here on an existing upgraded systems nor in a fresh installation so likely a timing or config issue. Would it be possible to get a 'journalctl -b 0' log after seeing the issue and add it to the bug.

Nautilus upstream decided to remove handling for launcher which is not something we are really happy about but that's their choice, you can read about it there https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/184

The desktop is now handled by a new component so the issue you describe is due to that one, reassigning