I didn't realize my bug was a duplicate
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1875125).
This is a big issue for desktop users, I almost rolled back immediately.
I'll still be rolling back due to other bugs I've found since Friday, but in
the meantime I did find a slightly better way of working around the issue for
20.04 which I had posted in my bug post. I'll repost it here:
In /usr/share/gnome-shell/modes/ there is a json file ubuntu.json. It
has a list of enabled extensions one of which is the desktop-icons
extension. It looks like this:
{
"parentMode": "user",
"stylesheetName": "Yaru/gnome-shell.css",
"themeResourceName": "theme/Yaru/gnome-shell-theme.gresource",
"debugFlags": ["backtrace-crashes-all"],
"enabledExtensions": ["ubuntu-d...@ubuntu.com",
"ubuntu-appindicat...@ubuntu.com", "desktop-icons@csoriano"]
}
Editing ubuntu.json and removing the entry and extra comma for desktop-
icons, disables the extension from a single point. After that working
around the issue using nemo provides desktop icons, delete hotkeys, and
drag/drop functionality that was previously non-functional.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1813441
Title:
Can no longer drag and drop files between desktop and applications
Status in gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons:
New
Status in gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
In releases before 19.04, you could drag and drop files from the
desktop into applications.
This no longer works.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons 19.01-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-13.14-generic 4.18.17
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu19
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Jan 26 21:47:14 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-01-02 (24 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64
(20181017.3)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-01-21 (5 days ago)
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