Additionnal note to my last comment: After downgrading to "gnome-keyring 3.10.1-1ubuntu4" (from "gnome- keyring 3.10.1-1ubuntu4.1"), loging out/in, it started working again: a terminal started form a '.desktop' file has the proper SSH_AUTH_SOCK variable.
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