Bug#931650: nautilus: Sidebar fails to show Desktop directory

[John Webster]

Package: nautilus
Version: 3.30.5-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,


   I upgraded from Debian 9.9 with XFCE to Debian 10 with XFCE. Because
   XFCE would not wake from suspend or hibernate in response to keyboard
   or mouse movement (a known bug in XFCE when using an external
   monitor--which I have), I uninstalled XFCE and installed Gnome. 
   With Gnome installed I discovered the sidebar of the Nautilus file
   manager application failed to show a shortcut to the "Desktop" folder in
   my user account's Home directory. I used Nautilus as a file manaager in XFCE and did not
   encounter this problem; within XFCE, Nautilus did show "Desktop" in its
   sidebar navigation shortcuts.

     I was able to create a shortcut to my Desktop folder in the Gnome
     Nautilus sidebar,
     by hitting "Ctrl+d" while viewing contents of ~/Desktop with
     Nautilus. However this shortcut appears at the bottom of the
     sidebar. Desktop is so fundamental to the user's file system that I
     believe it should appear automatically at the top of the sidebar
     along with other major directories such as Documents and Downloads.
     I tried "sudo apt-get install Nautilus" but got a message that my
     version of Nautilus was already the latest. My sources.list file
     for apt-get lists "buster" as the Debian version instead of
     "stretch."



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  bubblewrap                 0.3.1-4
ii  desktop-file-utils         0.23-4
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.28.1-1
ii  gvfs                       1.38.1-5
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.30.0-2
ii  libc6                      2.28-10
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.16.0-4
ii  libcairo2                  1.16.0-4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.38.1+dfsg-1
ii  libgexiv2-2                0.10.9-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.58.3-2
ii  libglib2.0-data            2.58.3-2
ii  libgnome-autoar-0-0        0.2.3-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.24.5-1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a    3.30.5-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.42.4-6
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.42.4-6
ii  libseccomp2                2.3.3-4
ii  libselinux1                2.8-1+b1
ii  libtracker-sparql-2.0-0    2.1.8-2
ii  nautilus-data              3.30.5-2
ii  shared-mime-info           1.10-1
ii  tracker                    2.1.8-2

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  gnome-sushi      3.30.0-2
ii  gvfs-backends    1.38.1-5
ii  librsvg2-common  2.44.10-2.1

Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii  atril [pdf-viewer]          1.20.3-1
ii  eog                         3.28.4-2+b1
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]         3.30.2-3
ii  nautilus-extension-brasero  3.12.2-5
ii  nautilus-sendto             3.8.6-3
ii  totem                       3.30.0-4
ii  vlc [mp3-decoder]           3.0.7-1
ii  xdg-user-dirs               0.17-2
ii  xpdf [pdf-viewer]           3.04-13

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