May be the solution is here
http://<email address hidden>/msg375353.html
if /home partition is full gnome cannot write to /~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home
this file will be 0 bytes in problem systems.
remove /~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home
and reboot this should recreate a proper /~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home file and all icaons will be shown up to desktop.
May be the solution is here
http://<email address hidden> /msg375353. html
if /home partition is full gnome cannot write to /~/.local/ share/gvfs- metadata/ home
this file will be 0 bytes in problem systems.
remove share/gvfs- metadata/ home
/~/.local/
and reboot share/gvfs- metadata/ home file and all icaons will be shown up to desktop.
this should recreate a proper /~/.local/