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Huh? Have you used KDE 4.x? There is no more "Desktop," at least not in the traditional sense. Instead, there's a Folder View widget that lets you see any folder from your desktop. I have two folder view widgets, one for my home folder and another for my Downloads folder. The icons on the folder view represent files just as much as the icons on a desktop represent files, but KDE 4 lets me view files from multiple places at once, which is convenient.