Icon Idiocy in Gnome

[Michael S. Peek]

Thilo Six wrote:
> peek wrote the following on 08.04.2007 15:01:
>
>   
>> Of the two flavors of Debian I have used (Debian proper and it's
>> spin-off Ubuntu), this symptom has popped up on both.  Sometimes when I
>> insert removable media, either disk or USB, the icon that Gnome places
>> on the desktop winds up on top of an existing icon.
>>     
>
> I have used both, Ubuntu and Debian gnome and never saw this happen.
> Have you tried with a clean profile?
>   

I have seen this both under Sarge (using an account that used to run KDE 
but now Gnome, so I can see how that environment might be polluted), and 
on a machine with a fresh installation of ubuntu with a brand new user 
account (not sure how much cleaner you can get than that).

Mostly, this seems to crop up after I've used the "Connect to Server" 
applet to define a nautilus connection to a remote host.  The connection 
icon that appears on the desktop seems to throw off removable media 
icons, even after I've thrown a couple of other document icons on the 
desktop too.

Michael