On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 9:38 PM, Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com> wrote:
Current plan is to add desktop icons to gnome-flashback like it was done with background.
Other option is to use either Nemo or Caja for desktop handling but keep Nautilus as the main file manger. That's what the Nautilus maintainer suggested.
There is also a discussion going on Ubuntu's community hub:
https://community.ubuntu.com/t/files-nautilus-v3-28-will-lose-the-desktop-icons-capability/3115
Thanks.