Saw that Fedora 25 was released, so did a fedup update on one of my classroom machines to show students in my Saturday Linux course. Update seemed to go thru with no issues, but did notice that there are no desktop icons?? Checked the gnome-tweak-tools, and it is set to show them, and the files are still in the desktop folder?? Anyone know why that would not show.
Even found a link to use dconf-editor, but its setting shows that the value for the icons is true?
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"Michael D. Setzer II" mikes@kuentos.guam.net writes:
Update seemed to go thru with no issues, but did notice that there are no desktop icons?? Checked the gnome-tweak-tools, and it is set to show them, and the files are still in the desktop folder?? Anyone know why that would not show.
Fedora 25 uses Wayland by default, in order to have desktop icons you should start (from GDM), Xorg session.
Sincerely, Gour
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 2:09 PM Joe Zeff joe@zeff.us wrote:
On 11/23/2016 02:25 AM, Saša Janiška wrote:
Fedora 25 uses Wayland by default, in order to have desktop icons you should start (from GDM), Xorg session.
Wayland doesn't use desktop icons???
No. As I understand it, Gnome 3 doesn't do desktop icons, and that it is nautilus which provides a workaround to reintroduce that behavior as a "tweak". However, that workaround doesn't currently work on Wayland.
Ultimately, I think the blame goes to Gnome 3 designers, if you need somebody to blame. I believe it was their decision to drive people away from desktop icons. (Probably because people tend to fill it with junk, uglifying an otherwise elegant desktop environment.)
It's probably a good idea to discourage treating the desktop like another filesystem folder with a bunch of arbitrary junk in it. Unfortunately, this makes one of the standard xdg dirs (~/Desktop) useless, and unless you have gnome shell extensions installed, you also won't be able to see icons for mounted drives, trash, etc.
On 11/23/2016 12:57 PM, Christopher wrote:
Ultimately, I think the blame goes to Gnome 3 designers, if you need somebody to blame. I believe it was their decision to drive people away from desktop icons. (Probably because people tend to fill it with junk, uglifying an otherwise elegant desktop environment.)
Thank you. I stopped using Gnome when I heard what Gnome 3 was going to be like, and you just gave me another reason not to go back.
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