I'm afraid on Ubuntu Karmic gnome-vfs still affects positions of my
desktop icons, but in a little different way.
I try to keep my desktop clean and only put the most necessary things
there. Specifically, I have several symbolic links to some interesting
directories, where I keep my work files. When I arrange icons on the
desktop (like in, say, Ubuntu 6.06 - 8.10) and log out, the next time I
log in icons for symbolic links are on the LEFT side of my screen, not
on the RIGHT side where I wanted them.
See attached screenshots:
* files-dirs-shortcuts-fine.png - that's what I intend to do
* shortcuts-wrong.png - that's what happens after logging out and logging back
in
* test-dir-created.png - after I have created a test directory somewhere on the
desktop
* test-dir-moved.png - after moving the test icon, logging out and logging in
It seems like regular files and directories are unaffected, and for some
reason only symlinks are treated differently.
I also attached two files from ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata, since I've
found the names of my desktop icons there (as well as interesting
strings like 'icon' and 'postion').
$ uname -a
Linux hobbit 2.6.31-10-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 10 23:33:50 UTC 2009 i686
GNU/Linux
$ dpkg -l | grep gnome-vfs
ii libgnome-vfs2.0-cil 2.24.1-4ubuntu1
CLI binding for GnomeVFS 2.24
** Attachment added: "Examples of how gnome-vfs incorrectly saves positions of
symlink icons on my desktop"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31952118/screenshots.tar.gz
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Gnome lost icons position on the desktop
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401446
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