Stranger and stranger.... the aberrant behavior just got fixed. I did some upgrades this morning, and my symlinks are now re-positioned correctly.
The most likely candidate would seem to be libgnomeui-0, which went from 2.24.1-1 to 2.24.2-1. I'll test this with another karmic install - just upgrade libgnomeui-0 and see what happens....... -- desktop icon position of symbolic links are not restored https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/411322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs