root vs user

[Pinco]

Hi,
as I wrote in other messages, as root I've uninstalled Mozilla Firebird 
and installed Mozilla Thunderbird.
The all system seems work well (even if I still don't understand why I 
don't have libxcom.so with my openoffice), but when I login as a user I 
still have the icon of the Firebird on the desktop bar and menu and I 
don't have access to Thunderbird.

Somewhere - one of the online manuals - I've read that during the 
process of creating a new user, after the creation or modification of 
the directories/files /etc/passwd /home/USER /etc/shadow /etc/group 
/etc/gshadow, copies the default user settings from /etc/skel/ to 
/home/USER, but in my system this folder seems empty!

Can someone give me some explanation?
How can my user have the same root desktop and applications?

Thanks a lot and, please, don't forget that I'm still learning!

Ciao,
Nino

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