[shr-testing] no icons on home screen

[Robin Paulson]

hi,
i'm not sure why it happened, but there are no longer any icons on the
home screen of shr. paroli starts at boot ok, and i can ssh in fine to
do an opkg update, and other cli stuff

/usr/share/applications is still populated the same as before the
problem, and whenever i change something in one of the .desktop files,
the spinning wheel appears on my desktop, as it counts the number of
files there, but nothing appears

installing new software doesn't do anything either

any suggestions, this is very frustrating?