In case anyone is wondering, in Unity7 it's not the shell that implements this. We use 'nautilus' which takes over and renders the desktop window by default. Although maybe in Unity8 the story would be different...
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1539957 Title: [enhancement] Allow files and links to be put on the Unity8 desktop Status in Mir: Invalid Status in Ubuntu UX: Triaged Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: enable the use of the desktop as in unity 7 . then adding the possibility to put files on the desktop To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1539957/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp