Clean Install: No Desktop Directory

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Hi, Last night I did a clean install of openSuse 11.1. I installed it over the top of an old Fedora install (i.e. during the install I formatted and mounted the Fedora / /boot /home etc partitions). Now, everything appeared to go well, but I don’t have a ‘Desktop’ directory in my /home/myusername/ directory. Now I wouldn’t care that much, but when I add a ‘Folder View’ widget to my desktop, it says it points at my Desktop directory by default, but in fact points to my Home directory which isn’t what I want.
So I just created a directory in /home/myusername/ and called it Desktop, and then made my ‘Folder View’ widget point at that, but now if I drag an icon to it, e.g. Firefox, the shortcut it creates ends up being called Firefox.Desktop and I don’t want to have to rename the icon every time I drag one on there.
So:
Should I have a Desktop directory, or am I confused?
If I should, why haven’t I got one?
What can I do about it?

Thanks for your time.

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OK, I think this is something to do with this:

New installation, have a question about a directory in /home - openSUSE Forums

I too have a /home/linux/ directory, which DOES have a Desktop directory inside it. I think the Live CD has created this. If I make the Folder View widget point at /home/linux/Desktop/ then it shows the live-installer icon, and I can’t add any other icons to it cos it says “access denied / cannot write to …” which I suppose makes sense. No idea what’s going on here.

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Right, I’ve resolved this by reinstalling from the 11.1 DVD (rather than the Live CD). I now have a /home/myusername/Desktop directory, which the Folder View widget on the desktop already points at, and no /home/linux/ directory, so everything’s how I expected it to be. Presumably the earlier problems were something to do with installing from the Live CD.