Also affects Karmic Beta. Accidentally moved home folder contents to wastebin, brought them back from the 'dead' and the desktop continued to show the home directory, not the ~/Desktop directory. Workaround above fixed the problem though.
-- setting XDG_DESKTOP_DIR automaticallyto the user dir when Desktop is not available confuses users https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151576 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs