Comment 8 for bug 487105

If you use a desktop file from the menu, there's no need to copy it to the home folder, only if you make changes to it... as you noticed. Anyway we have no problems to use the desktop file you posted from Awn, so we'll investigate further. Are you using autostart of Awn? Could you try to quit it, run it from terminal and then use the nautilus launcher?

And sorry for offtopic, but you have a really neat theme colors, could you export the theme and post it somewhere? It'd nicely complement our "Dark theme". :)