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In principle it was the right decision. Opening an application shouldn't take over the root window. The was specially obvious for people who don't use gnome but
by PuercoPop 6y ago
In principle it was the right decision. Opening an application shouldn't take over the root window. The was specially obvious for people who don't use gnome but use nautilus. The problem is that as you mention "The Gnome shell desktop extension is not as robust as nautilus"
- 29athrowaway 6y agoIf I have nautilus extensions for different purposes, those won't be available for the desktop because it's managed by the desktop icons extension. It makes the file management experience inconsistent. That is not the case on macOS or Windows.