I didn't realize my bug was a duplicate (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1875125).
This is a big issue for desktop users, I almost rolled back immediately. I'll still be rolling back due to other bugs I've found since Friday, but in the meantime I did find a slightly better way of working around the issue for 20.04 which I had posted in my bug post. I'll repost it here: In /usr/share/gnome-shell/modes/ there is a json file ubuntu.json. It has a list of enabled extensions one of which is the desktop-icons extension. It looks like this: { "parentMode": "user", "stylesheetName": "Yaru/gnome-shell.css", "themeResourceName": "theme/Yaru/gnome-shell-theme.gresource", "debugFlags": ["backtrace-crashes-all"], "enabledExtensions": ["ubuntu-d...@ubuntu.com", "ubuntu-appindicat...@ubuntu.com", "desktop-icons@csoriano"] } Editing ubuntu.json and removing the entry and extra comma for desktop- icons, disables the extension from a single point. After that working around the issue using nemo provides desktop icons, delete hotkeys, and drag/drop functionality that was previously non-functional. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1813441 Title: Can no longer drag and drop files between desktop and applications To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons/+bug/1813441/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs