Desktop icons won't open

All launchers on the desktop are shown like '<appname>.desktop', and
when I click on any icon on the desktop, Gnome can't figure out which
program to use (which it used to figure out...)

I'm a newbie to Linux and Gnome, so please keep it simple ;)

Best,
Fredrik
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