Bug#914437: ITP: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons -- desktop icon support for GNOME shell

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hello Iain,

On Fri, 23 Nov 2018, Iain Lane wrote:
> * Package name: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons
>   Version : 18.11~rc1
>   Upstream Author : Carlos Soriano , Sergio Costas 
> 
> * URL : 
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/desktop-icons
> * License : GPL-3+
>   Programming Lang: Javascript
>   Description : desktop icon support for GNOME shell

We have packaged this for Kali already if you want to base your work
on our package:
http://git.kali.org/gitweb/?p=packages/gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons.git
http://pkg.kali.org/pkg/gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons

> The GNOME team will maintain this package. I'll initially upload to
> experimental, probably at least until there is a stable release as
> opposed to a release candidate.

Why? It might not be declared stable yet, but it has been working
reasonably well up to now (installed and enabled by default in latest
Kali).

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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Bug#914437: ITP: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons -- desktop icon support for GNOME shell

[Iain Lane]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Iain Lane 

* Package name: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons
  Version : 18.11~rc1
  Upstream Author : Carlos Soriano , Sergio Costas 

* URL : https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/desktop-icons
* License : GPL-3+
  Programming Lang: Javascript
  Description : desktop icon support for GNOME shell

This package provides a GNOME Shell extension for showing the contents
of ~/Desktop on the desktop of the Shell. Common file management
operations such as launching, copy/paste, rename and deleting are
supported.

This is replacing functionality that was in Nautilus prior to 3.28. It
uses D-Bus APIs provided by Nautilus to implement some of the features
mentioned above.

The GNOME team will maintain this package. I'll initially upload to
experimental, probably at least until there is a stable release as
opposed to a release candidate.