double desktop icons: bug or feature?

Thu Feb 7 23:13:10 UTC 2008

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:56:45 -0800
Gerhard Magnus <magnus at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:

> I'm running FC8. Why would one of my removable USB devices (an external
> hard drive) be creating two identical icons on my gnome desktop each
> time I boot? Is there some way around this?
> 

I thought it was a bug when I first saw it:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389411

I don't see any comments on the bug since it was entered, so I have
no clues to offer.