GNOME 3.36 Pegged For Release On 11 March, More Stable Point Releases Come To GNOME

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME 3.36 Pegged For Release On 11 March, More Stable Point Releases Come To GNOME

With the big GNOME 3.34 release coming out this week, the GNOME 3.36 release schedule has now been published...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNOME-3.36-Release-Schedule

[tildearrow]

GNOME 3.34 will be a game changer. Figuratively and literary.

3.36 even better. The downstreams really come together now.

Which downstreams?

[jacob]

If I can have a dream, I wish the desktop icons support was finally completely fixed in 3.36. By this I mean 100%. feature complete and stable to be at long last on par with the old versions of Nautilus that managed desktop icons themselves.

[franglais125]

If I can have a dream, I wish the desktop icons support was finally completely fixed in 3.36. By this I mean 100%. feature complete and stable to be at long last on par with the old versions of Nautilus that managed desktop icons themselves.

As someone who hasn't used the extension for desktop icons, what are the shortcomings at the moment?

[tildearrow]

tildearrow All of them basically.

I meant, like did you mean desktop environments?

[Anvil]

on the road to Gnome4 ? with these point releases , GTK4 an Gnome4? possible IMO

[jacob]

As someone who hasn't used the extension for desktop icons, what are the shortcomings at the moment?

It's buggy, often it's not possible to empty the trash.
Drag & drop between the desktop and applications doesn't work, at least not consistently. This includes Nautilus windows.
Mounted volumes (USB etc.) don't appear on the desktop.

NB: this is all in Wayland sessions. Maybe it behaves better under X11, that I don't know.

[Britoid]

It's buggy, often it's not possible to empty the trash.
Drag & drop between the desktop and applications doesn't work, at least not consistently. This includes Nautilus windows.
Mounted volumes (USB etc.) don't appear on the desktop.

NB: this is all in Wayland sessions. Maybe it behaves better under X11, that I don't know.

Desktop icons don't really make sense under GNOME anyway.

The desktop icons extension is infamous for crashing the shell, leaking memory worse than a 5 day old nappy and causing the shell to run like dog crap. Which is probably why Ubuntu ships it.

[jacob]

Desktop icons don't really make sense under GNOME anyway.

The desktop icons extension is infamous for crashing the shell, leaking memory worse than a 5 day old nappy and causing the shell to run like dog crap. Which is probably why Ubuntu ships it.

That the implementation is crap doesn't mean that it "doesn't make sense". GNOME is a desktop interface, not a mobile phone interface, and desktop icons must be front and centre otherwise it's not really usable.

[Vistaus]

That the implementation is crap doesn't mean that it "doesn't make sense". GNOME is a desktop interface, not a mobile phone interface, and desktop icons must be front and centre otherwise it's not really usable.

What does that even mean? Almost all mobile phones have desktop icons too (Android, iOS kind of, Ubuntu Touch, etc.). Hell, even my backup phone, a 2007 Motorola Razr V6 Maxx SE (which isn't even a smartphone!), has desktop icons.