Hallo!
Wenn ich einen neuen Nutzer anlege, sieht Nautilus wie folgt aus:
Bei mir fehlt der Punkt "Schreibtisch", kann ihn nur als Lesezeichen hinzufügen:
Wie bekomme ich "Schreibtisch" wieder ganz normal oben eingebunden?
Viele Grüße!
It's apparently a bug but you can create it with this name "Schreibtisch"
It can be related with zorin appearance>desktop option, maybe if you activate it the folder will be created, but I'm not sure 
I have that, too. It seems to be a Nautilus Thing. You could check if it behaves differently when Zorin runs in Xorg instead of Wayland.
To switch, go to the Login Screen. Click on the Profile so that the Password Field appears. When it is appeared, You should see a Gear Icon in the bottom right Corner. Click on it and choose the Option ''Zorin Desktop on Xorg'' and then log in.
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I tested it in a Zorin 18 live session and there in Xorg the Desktop folder was shown in the sidebar of Nautilus, but in Wayland it was not shown. Interesting.
Nemo and Thunar don't have that issue in Wayland, only Nautilus.
That is a screenshot of the three file managers in Wayland session (top left Nemo, top right Thunar, bottom Nautilus):
Dolphin also shows the Desktop folder in the sidebar (named "Arbeitsfläche"):
I notice that Nautilus has defizits compared to the other file managers in many respects.
I found no solution/fix for Nautilus in Wayland session to display the desktop folder in the sidebar. I tested another gnome extension (desktop icons NG) but it is the same there. That seems to be an unsolved issue in Nautilus (or intentionally designed that way by the gnome developers).
So you have that options: Add the bookmark manually as you already did, switch from Wayland to Xorg or install another file manager, e.g. Nemo
sudo apt install nemo
and set it as default.
when gnome and wayland come together, they create many bugs.
Nautilus has so many bugs and even though some of them are fixed on GNOME 47,48,49,50; Zorin is still using GNOME 46. So it's highly not possible to fix on wayland. But you can switch to x11.
Log out and select "Zorin Desktop on Xorg" from right bottom setting icon.
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I don't think that this is a Bug. I have Debian 13 with Gnome 48 installed and there isn't a Desktop Bookmark at the Sidebar, too. I have to add that there, too.
In higher gnome versions as in Debian 13 the Desktop isn't even shown any more in Xorg in Nautilus' sidebar.
Since Nautilus wasn't even able to open the desktop files on Desktop folder, I'm not surprised.
GNOME likes to drop features every time.
For me it's kind of a crazy decision. Because to open url files Windows has .url and since it's not supported by default on Linux, people use .desktop files to open it.
KDE has this by default on their context menu that allows to create a desktop file to url.
But since GNOME's file manager Nautilus doesn't even support desktop files, you cannot open them.
Please create a new thread for this topic.
Hello! First of all, thanks for your reply. I tried Wayland, but the problem remains the same.
In Wayland it doesn't work. Try Xorg.
As I already mentioned in my first post, everything works fine with a newly created user. So, that is how I will solve the problem. Thanks for all your replies!
Can you please post a screenshot of the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs when logged in as your user?
You might remember, but right at the very beginning, I already had problems with the Desktop folder. --> How can I hide specific desktop icons?
Yes, I just took a look at the old thread. Your file looks correct.
If it works with a new user account and you're already using Xorg, the problem must lie elsewhere.
I haven't tried Xorg yet, but under X11 (the default) and Wayland, the result is identical: it works for a new user, but not for me.
My hope was that there might be a configuration option for Nautilus somewhere, since the settings must be stored somewhere.
Beginner question: Xorg = X11?
Yes, X11 and Xorg mean the same here.
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Maybe you can try that idea of zenzen to delete those files when logged in as your user (or rename them by adding .bak to the filename to make them invisible for the system, e.g. ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs.bak):
Unfortunately, that didn't work.
Unfortunately, I'm running out of ideas.
I tried to reproduce your error, but I wasn't able to (it only disappeared in the sidebar in Xorg when the many folders on the desktop appeared - but you don't have that problem any more).
I wondered if it might have something to do with the difference between the German and English terms, because in the Zorin 18.1 Live session, for example, the Nautilus sidebar says "Schreibtisch," but the Home folder says "Desktop." You have both with "Schreibtisch". It shouldn't be a problem to set that up that this way (I changed it to that names, too in my test), but perhaps something went wrong.