Ubuntu contributor Didier Roche announced that the upcoming Ubuntu 18.04 LTS operating system could ship with an older version of the Nautilus (Files) file manager for out-of-the-box support for desktop icons.
As you may be aware, upstream GNOME team decided to remove the handling of desktop icons from the Nautilus file manager, moving it to the GNOME Shell user interface through an extension. The change will take effect with the upcoming GNOME 3.28 desktop environment, due for release on March 14, 2018.
Now that Ubuntu switched to GNOME as default desktop environment, the change will affect all upcoming releases of the operating system, starting with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver), which is currently under heavy development.
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