I'm trying to narrow down a bug (to eventually report it or give up if it'll turn out that resetting a simple setting will be enough to get rid of it)

I noticed that with a brand new user the bug doesn't pop up

so I tried to reset the config of my user's nautilus

I renamed .config/nautilus I renamed .nautilus2 (strange name... why the 2?) and I did a

gsettings reset-recursively org.gnome.nautilus

strangely enough, it didn't work:

I previously set up to use my home as the desktop folder, and now the key has correctly been resetted

$gsettings get org.gnome.nautilus.preferences desktop-is-home-dir 
false

and yet on my desktop I see the contents of my home folder (meaning that the settings have not been resetted)

I know that with the transition to gtk3 there've been lots of changes (before I should've used gconf... but now there's dconf and gsettings), so there're quite a bit of question about nautilus... but these unfortunately now seem to be outdated