What is the Folder View applet?
The Folder View applet, like its name says, is used to display items (folders, files) from a directory. Such a directory can be either a local one residing on your computer, but also a remote FTP, SSH, or SMB share. In the future, it will even contain results from Nepomuk searches and tagging. You can choose to view either all files, or filter either by specific regular expressions (e.g., all files with a certain extension) or by file type (for example, just images). This applet also supports basic file management properties (moving, copying, cutting and pasting for example), and you can have as many as you want on your desktop. Lastly, you can use one Folder View as the whole desktop, effectively replicating the “old style” paradigm.
