Automount probably isn't installed this time, this is meant as a base to add to, not as a full working distro - to try keep the size down.
If you need to add stuff to get things working, by all means add it to the Wiki page at the bottom - that's what it's there for!
The shortcuts might be getting wiped out by pndnotify... as I effectively never use desktop shortcuts, I never had a look at it.
You could force them by adding them to the system's desktop rather than the user's desktop, if you desperately need them, however.
If you think things are missing, by all means give me a list of features that you want.. but I've been trying to keep the size down on purpose during these "testing" images to ensure that I get all the major bugs fixed before doing the whole thing properly. It's not much fun going through a large image to cut it down a bit, then to pack it up and upload it, only to find something major has gone wrong ( IE: WiFi and Session Management, for example. )
General niggles like PNDs and shortcuts don't really bother me much as it's not meant to be a finished thing yet, and I suspect the PND stuff to start behaving itself when properly compiled and not forcefully jammed in, along with a set of compatibility libraries.
I've also never stated that this is for general consumption - it's a dodgy hack like most of my stuff - things may be broken, and the 1.0.3 release is as stripped down as I can get it to act as a functioning base to install whatever you want on it. I'm more than willing to help if something's severely broken, if I get bug reports - and especially if I get fixes to implement!
But as I said, this is meant as a base to play about with and add whatever you want.
For example, to get LXDE back up to it's full-featured self, just install it: sudo apt-get install lxde
That will probably give you back automount, and may even fix your desktop shortcut issues.
Maybe you don't even want LXDE? sudo apt-get purge lxde-core ( though I'd advise doing this only AFTER installing something else
)
Enlightenment's pretty nice: sudo apt-get install e16
Or XFCE for familiarness: sudo apt-get install xfce4
Or perhaps brave the HOURS it'll take to install and grab GNOME: sudo apt-get install gnome
Or even something more minimal like Fluxbox: sudo apt-get install fluxbox
As it stands, the Debian stuff I've released is really just a base to add your own stuff to.. if something's broken, fix it! and post it on the Wiki
I won't be doing 1.1 for a while, but that's not to say I don't want feature requests, as well as what kind of desktop environment people would be looking for.. and the current image is perhaps perfect for fiddling about and seeing what's there, as it's small and gives a pretty solid base to try other things on.
Oh and don't take this somewhat mini-rant as something directed at you, peelie... just clearing the air a bit as to what this Debian image currently is as it stands.. until I finish 1.1 it's going to be a hacky mess - read the wiki page to see _just_ how hacky it is!
This is also going to be the last image until 1.1 unless there is some severe bug lurking in there ( IE: the Wifi stuff is still a bit iffy, for example.. or the SGX drivers are a bit mad. )
