Desktop folder

[karlheinrich]

OS Version: Maui 2.1 "Blue Tang".

In Folder View Settings the radio-button for Show the Desktop folder is activated but the folder does not show.
I request guidance on how to make the Desktop folder show on desktop.

[Pliny.D.Elder]

What do you have in your home/XXXX/Desktop folder?
What do expect to see?
Have you created files/folders for the desktop?

[karlheinrich]

   
   

What do you have in your home/XXXX/Desktop folder?
What do expect to see?
Have you created files/folders for the desktop?

I thought by activating the radio button a 'desktop folder icon' would appear on the desktop, refer to attached screenshot.

[leszek]

This options enables folderview desktop which shows you the contents of the desktop folder as icons on the desktop.

[Pliny.D.Elder]

Right click .....Configure Desktop/location/..... You can change some "folder view" settings there. Other than that you can, right click the Desktop/Create New File/folder. You can also put your shortcuts to programs on the desktop via start menu/right click on a application (such as firefox) and press add to desktop.
You might find this interesting.
https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma

[karlheinrich]

Right click .....Configure Desktop/location/..... You can change some "folder view" settings there. Other than that you can, right click the Desktop/Create New File/folder. You can also put your shortcuts to programs on the desktop via start menu/right click on a application (such as firefox) and press add to desktop.
You might find this interesting.
https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma

Yes, riveting stuff indeed. Alas, the "Location" in "Folder View Settings - Plasma" seems (as far as I can determine) to have its own mind i.e., activating either one of the 4 radio button(s) under Location/Location will show different/unexpected results.

The KDE UserBase Wiki does not seem to describe a solution to the 'challenge' I am experiencing.

My desktop originally displayed 'Readme', 'Network' and 'My Computer' icons. I moved these 3 icons to Trash.

I am trying to place/show the 'desktop folder icon' on to my desktop computer monitor and would've liked sending four self-explanatory screenshots (total 695 KiB) but am unable to do so because of some errors indicating either my message is too long or the file specified is empty. I tried for the last 2hrs... I give up and bow out.