Around about 01/09/08 11:06, Alan Cox typed ...
The desktop shows the stuff in the "Desktop/" directory by default. If it contains hourly or daily snapshot directories so will the users desktop...
Um, it doesn't. The .snapshot dir is in the *home* dir., as a sibling of ~/Desktop. The [raw] contents of ~/Desktop never change, the rogue icons are an overlay added by nautilus for some reason.
E.g., with .snapshot and possibly blah showing on Desktop:
/home/username/blah /home/username/Desktop [no .snapshot or blah] /home/username/.snapshot /home/username/.snapshot/hourly.0/blah /home/username/.snapshot/hourly.1/blah etc.
Oh, and I was wrong earlier, the problem's only fixed after a reboot, so the issues not likely to be nautilus itself but more whatever's feeding it info. (with 'mount' and 'lshal' not showing anything abnormal).