Bug#647768: Workaround.

[Ray Dillinger]

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Well, that was a spectacularly unhelpful answer. I'll try to do
better.

The reason all these things went away is because they are, by
default, disabled in the version of Gnome you've just upgraded to.
The "bug" can't be fixed, because evidently it's not a bug at all,
but rather an intended interface change.  Which sort of explains, though
it does not excuse, the indifference of someone whose
mission is to fix actual bugs.

Apparently there's some plan to provide the functionality in
another way, but whatever it might be it doesn't seem to be
obviously working yet.  So until then, for your sake and the sake
of all the people who are going to find this bug report when
they search for the bug after experiencing the same unexpected
and undesired change in desktop behavior....

To enable icons on the desktop, and right-click desktop
configuration,

1.  Press alt-f2.
2.  In the dialog box that appears, type 'dconf-editor'
3.  In the application that then appears, navigate to
    org -> gnome -> desktop using the list in the left
    panel.

4.  Now in the right panel, there'll be a list of options.
    One of them, next to an unchecked box, will be
    'show desktop icons'.  Click on the box.

This should make your 'home', 'trash', and 'computer' icons
reappear.

Beyond that, you can now use a right-click on the desktop to
make launchers for various applications.  So you can restore
your familiar working environment to that extent.

There's still a lot of stuff in the new dconf that isn't
implemented yet, but this much anyway is working.

				Bear



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