This is definately becoming a monlogue!! Further to my problem of desktop icons missing from Gnome (gmc) I now have a solution. I am surprised no-one pointed it out, but there again I only tried it as a last resort.
I created a new user and found that this user had all the correct Gnome icons on the desktop. This led me to suspect the configuration files in my home directory. I removed ~/.gnome and ~/.gnome-desktop and logged in as me. I must say I was very pleased to see that I now had all my desktop icons intact. I think that upgrading from Storm Rain (=Slink) to Potato (and hence upgrading to Potato Gnome apps and libs) caused the problem. I understand it is part of Debian received wisdom that no file in ~/ is tampered with during an install or upgrade. Is this so? -- Phillip Deackes Using Storm Linux 2000
