Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.0) Installed from: Compiled From Sources After updating to svn branch 3.5 last weekend suddenly my desktop files 'home' 'system' and 'trash' are displayed as text files. I see an icon with the text from the .desktop file previewed in them. I can remove this by configuring the desktop behavior and disabling the icon preview for 'text' files. After doing so I indeed nicely see the icons again.
I can confirm that I've had that problem twince in the last 2 days using KDE compiled from 3.5 branch head daily
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116214 ***
Bug closed. Kdesktop is no more mantained.