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

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

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 <csoriano@redhat.com>, Sergio Costas <raster@rastersoft.com>
> * 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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