Your Gnome Desktop Icon Missing? Here is the solution to bring it back

Using Gnome desktop mean you should following their updates. And in the lastest update Gnome have deleted their Desktop icon by default. But this is not the end, if you someone who comfort at using desktop icon, you should try this one.

First, Gnome has their control menu named Gnome Tweak. If you already install this tool before you can run it via Application menu then search for tweak.
Or you can install it by..

apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool

Here is the interface

On the menu tab there a tab name Extension. 

For installing Gnome Desktop extension you can download it from

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/desktop-icons

Extraxt and Copy you downloaded file to

~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extension

Just make a  new folder if you do not have extension folder

then open metadata.json file using text editor, and edit this line

"uuid": "desktop-icons@csoriano"

Change desktop-icons@csoriano to your folder name or change your folder name to uuid name

Press F2 or fn+F2 then type r amd enter  to refresh your shell

Then DONE. You can enable the Desktop-Icon extension on your tweak. Thanks for reading