Bug#959044: Just ran into this one myself after squeeze to buster upgrade

[Tim Day]

I was vaguely aware there was something newly leaky about gnome-shell
in buster, but hadn't looked into it in any detail as logging out and
logging in again every few days would fix it.

However, I just upgraded my last stretch machine to buster.  That has a
"power user" with a densely populated desktop of files and folders (on
the order of a hundred items, several gigabytes), and within an hour of
use their gnome-shell had expanded to the sort of bloated size which
takes me (with a handful of files on the desktop) many days to reach.

Thinking it must be something to do with their desktop habits (and
thereby this extension) led me to this bug.

Upgrading to the latest extension version (15) for the 3.30 shell on
the gnome extensions site does appear to fix the issue.

Mainly mentioning this in case it has some bearing on the "severity"
assessment; it does have the potential to hit heavy desktop users quite
hard (until they change their ways, anyway).

Maybe worth also worth mentioning that there does seem to be some
considerably increased clunkiness/"flashing"/repainting of the desktop
compared with squeeze's icons-on-desktop behaviour, which I think must
be something to do with issues like
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/desktop-icons/-/issues/58
https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/desktop-icons/-/issues/120
but so far as I can tell it looks like the fixes for that are in
versions of the extension for more recent gnome-shells.

Thanks to everyone working to make Debian awesome
Tim