Lost Desktop Icons in F11 [Partially Solved]

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 15 August 2009 19:58:00 Steven F. LeBrun wrote:
> On 08/15/2009 01:39 PM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Saturday 15 August 2009 16:33:40 Steven F. LeBrun wrote:
> >> One thing that does bother me about my ~/.local/share/applications-bad
> >> directory is that multiple desktop configuration files exist for the
> >> same applications.  The worst case appears to be for Audacious; there
> >> are seven different desktop configuration files for it.
> >
> > Glad you're getting nearer.  I'm curious about this ^^ statement.  Can
> > you look inside some of those files?  Do they look as though they
> > actually are all for Audacious, or whether something else went wrong,
> > like a corrupted index, that might cause them to be mis-named?
> >
> > Are there many applications that have these duplicated file?  And are
> > they applications that were in use (or being launched) at the time of
> > corruption?
> >
> > Anne
>
> It appears that I am getting different results with different programs
> when I look at my application-bad directory.
>
> When I use Nautilus, the default app used when opening my home
> directory, it lists multiple files with the same application name, in
> this example Audacious.  These file names do not include an extension
> and their type is listed as "desktop configuration file".
>
> When I use Emacs to display the same directory, each file has a unique
> file name.  Grepping the directory yielded this list:
>
>     grep -nH -e Audacious *.*
>     alacarte-made-37.desktop:9:Name=Audacious
>     alacarte-made-37.desktop:10:Name[en_US]=Audacious
>     fedora-audacious.desktop:12:Name=Audacious
>     fedora-audacious-plugins.desktop:10:Name=Audacious
>     livna-audacious-aac.desktop:10:Name=Audacious
>     livna-audacious-alac.desktop:10:Name=Audacious
>     livna-audacious-mp3.desktop:10:Name=Audacious
>     livna-audacious-wma.desktop:10:Name=Audacious
>
<snip>

Fascinating as I find this, I confess that I don't have the skills to help 
solve it.  Are there dedicated Gnome lists where people who understand the 
depths of nautilus could take a look?  Or maybe even ask the nautilus 
developer direct for assistance?

It certainly looks like a situation that you couldn't expect the file manager 
to handle.

Anne
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