Nautilus' "initial-desktop" dir - what is it good for?

[Johannes Rohr <j.rohr@gmx.de>]

Hello,

I wonder what /usr/share/nautilus/initial-desktop is actually good
for. It contains symlinks to some files from /usr/share/desktop-base,
but these are obviously ignored. A new user account start with Gnome's
stock desktop. None of the .desktop files in the initial-desktop dir
is copied to ~/.gnome-desktop.

Earlier I heard that this was going to change with Gnome 2.2, which
obviously hasn't happened. 

Thanks,

Johannes
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