Comment 26 for bug 1883174

Sergio,

So... I think I followed your last comment and did some more research.. If I can try to summarize briefly, what your saying is that to understand if your new patch works (which I believe is the goal so that ultimately it might be moved forward), we need to prove that it solves our issue. When using gnome 3.x on an Ubuntu system, by default you are given an "ubuntu session" where the folks at cannocial have packed together and tested as a bundle a few tweaks/extensions to vanilla gnome to simplify things for users and to promote their branding. For any extensions that I chose to add after that I have complete control to update and add/remove. For the standard few they included (which includes desktop icons) I don't have the ability to update or change them. Any updates would need to be pushed through by cannocial as bundle package updates. Alternatively, I need to do an install of the vanilla gnome packages (because gnome is not currently an option on the login screen), then chose that session type on login (along with setting everything up again).

Given how much work I have done just to get my system mostly functional I am reluctant to change session types on my primary account, so I had an alternate idea of just creating a new, second user on the system and then making the changes there. Before I even started with installing vanilla gnome, I first created a new user and then logged in with it using a standard ubuntu session. I then setup my same few extensions and ran a test to prove I had the issue (so I could know for sure if/when it was fixed). Oddly, I can't get desktop icons to break in the new user account. It works fine after numerous tests. Its frustrating, but this leads me to believe that there is some form of conflict between desktop icons and the (literally) hundreds of this I have installed over time in my main account. It must be a common thing that many users of ubuntu install or configure because there do seem to be many people here with the same complaint.