Sebastien, make sure that your home folder was created by dragging from the places menu.
FOR CLARIFICATION: The home folder specified in gconf works fine. When you drag the home folder form Places, it demonstates this bug. -- Dragging files to home folder on desktop doesn't move files https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/35919 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
