User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061118 (Debian-1.8.0.8-1) Epiphany/2.14 Build Identifier: In Gnome you can choose (through gconf-editor) if the icons you see on your desktop are the ones in $HOME/Desktop (default) or in $HOME. As you already guessed I don't have a $HOME/Desktop folder and use my home dir as my desktop. XFCE doesn't allow this. Reproducible: Always
No, definitely not. This is just confusing and inconsistent, IMHO, even if it's a hidden option.
Well, I can't understand how a hidden and obviously off-by-default setting can be *confusing*, given that it would be a deliberate choice by the user to activate it. Both GNOME and KDE allow this. So what really is *inconsistent* is not to have this in XFCE, since this way you break interoperability with other DEs if the user uses that setting there. Anyway, you're the maintainter, so you have got the power :-)