Personal folder on desktop in 8.04

Have you tried doing this via Nautilus? Dragging from the side panel to the open directory?

Maybe if I knew what Nautilus is.
I dont have a side panel as far as I can see.

Be sure your nautilus have side pane opened...
Open Nautilus from Places-> Home Folder, then go to Nautilus menu: View and select Side pane
or press F9

Hope this helps

OK Nautilus is that program that opens (like explorer in M$) when I follow Places and personal folder in the menu.
The side panel shows but the personal folder, on top now with my name, can't be dragged. All others can.
In 6.06 which I still run at a desktop its simple. Open Places and drag the personal folder to the desktop. Does not work in 8.04!

So, no solution yet

What mean with personal folder... please tell the folder name...

Thank you

I have the dutch version here so I have to gamble with the name.
When in the menu there are Applications(?) - Places - System.
Under Places the first item is what I call personal folder; a folder symbol with an orange circle with a white home icon.
It is the folder that's attached to the login I think.
More clarificatioin I can't give.

Right-click on your desktop and from the drop-down list, select 'Create Launcher'.
In the Name box, put any name you want.
For the 'Command' box type in: nautilus.
That should create your home folder.

Sorry SpLitz, it creates a shortcut but at double click it come with an error.

In a dutch forum the solution came up as:
1) Open gconf-editor in the terminal
2) go to apps > nautilus > desktop
3) tick home_icon_visible

This should automatically show the icon on the desktop.
However not on my laptop.

Anybody experience with this?

Apparently with looking around in the gconf-editor I modified the key home_icon_name from <no value> to '0' (nil). This created an error message at startup and prevented Nautilus to be activated.
This was checked with the list of running processes.
First we changed the type of all the _name keys to string without any entry in the value.
Started nautilus via the terminal, logged-off/on and proceded with the description in previous post.
Now it works!

Some people think its a bug in nautilus and I will report it as such.

I tried it and it didn't work either. But I figured out how. What you need is a shortcut to it.
Here's what you do:

1.Log in as root
2.Click Places>Computer>Filesystem
3.Then go to the "home" folder and then click whatever your home folder is named.
4.Right click on it and click "Make Link" (in a normal user it won't let you do this).
5.Then there should be a shortcut that says "Link to [Insert your home folder here]".
6.Right click it and hit "Cut".
7.Then go into your home folder (not root's), then go into the folder "Desktop" and paste it.
8.Rename it if you like.
9.Then log out and log back in as yourself
10.SHA-ZAAM!!!! It should be there.

It worked for me. Hope it works for you!
-Bgs100

P.S. If you don't know how to log in as root, here's how:

1. Go to System>Administration>Login Window.
2.Click the "Security" tab.
3.Look for "Allow local administrator login"
5.The checkbox next to it probably won't be checked, so check it.
6.Get out of that and go to System>Administration>Users and Groups
7.Click Unlock and type in your password.
8.Select "root" and then click "Properties".
9.Make him a password.
10.Log out and type in "root" as username and then type in your password.