Comment 6 for bug 1875125

@Sebastien, thank you for pointing out the bug was a duplicate. I've posted my workaround in the linked bug since the workaround I found is better than the current workaround.

Additionally, I really don't have the words to describe my disbelief that this regression actually made it into an LTS release. Its been a known issue for longer than a year before the release; and a problem in 19.04, 19.10, and now 20.04 LTS.

Most desktop users will immediately feel the pain of being unable to drag and drop, delete files or other inconveniences which will add up cumulatively every time they want to do something up until they find a solution, or decide its not worth it and go with another distro.

Following the commonly indexed posts on google they'll immediately get stuck when gsettings for disabling desktop icons fails since launchpad isn't indexed.

I like some of the changes in 20.04 but properly working desktop icons has been a required productivity expectation in any OS that's been around since the 90s regardless of what some people think.