This bug is still present in Focal. It seems to have lost focus in upstream. In Focal it is much harder to remove the extension as it is even more tightly linked in as a mandatory dependency for a number of major system components. The only way to remove it is by deleting or renaming its files.
It seems to me that this extension is responsible for numerous performance issues. A number of bugs have been raised on different symptoms, but all have a common factor of impacting performance and involving this extension. May I suggest that an umbrella bug is created and named something like "Unacceptable Gnome shell perfomance" and marked as critical. The first priority is to make this extension optional and disabled by default. The process of enabling should warn of potential performance issues. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1812883 Title: Desktop view flashes every time ~/Desktop changes Status in gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons: New Status in gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: All of the icons on my desktop visibly flash every time I change anything in the folder ~/Desktop, even if the change is not something that is visible on my desktop. For example, "touch ~/Desktop/.#foo". I mean, the icons that haven't changed should never flash at all, even if a change is made that _does_ affect the visible display -- only the things that are actually new or different should change their appearance, and everything else should remain the same and not flash. But at the very least, there should be no flash when there are no visible changes. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.30.5-1ubuntu1 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: Tue Jan 22 11:38:30 2019 InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-01-02 (20 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.3) SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-01-21 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons/+bug/1812883/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
