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Adam Niedling: That's a long story. Very briefly, about 2 years ago the GNOME project, which develops Nautilus, decided to remove support for desktop icons from Nautilus, controversially:
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Ubuntu still wants desktop icons, so it needs to implement them in some other way, and so it uses the Desktop Icons shell extension.
As Paddy mentioned above, there is a newer version of Desktop Icons called Desktop Icons NG, which is under active development:
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I myself run Desktop Icons NG too. It is still a long way from having all the functionality of Nautilus, but it is slowly getting better.
I also hope that Ubuntu will switch to Desktop Icons NG sooner or later.