Please describe the problem:
when the infrastructure of my system might change, the users' home directories should still remain /home/username.
unfortunately, in case /home/username contains a link, gtk+ based applications are saving the pointed to path, instead of the link name, thus raising an obstacle when i wish to make this link point to another physical location.

Steps to reproduce:
1. create an user account, and move his /home/username contents to /somewhere-else.
2. symlink /somewhere-else to /home/username, login username, and activate gtk/gnome applications, add icons to panels etc.
3. logout the user, and grep in /home/username for the string
 "/somewhere-else".


Actual results:
the pointed to directory is beeing recorded in gtk+ programs.

Expected results:
the /home/username string should be recorded, since this is the where the system would report a home directory.
the same should follow if an user might have selected a file/location by a symlink.

Does this happen every time?
yes, i can reproduce it in gtk+2.8 applications, and Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se>, shich is debian maintainer for gtk+, said he reproduced it on 2.10

Other information:
this has been reported long ago, at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59607