Good idea: Recent documents in your Desktop

Well. I have a machine with Ubuntu 8.10 (LTS who knows what it means (wkwim)) with kde 3.5.10.

It seemed very cool to have those recent documents very accessible so I thought to have them in my Desktop. Anyway it was empty then.

So the solution I came up with was:

(logged out using kde)

cd ~
rm -Rf Desktop
ln -s /home/<user>/.kde/share/apps/RecentDocuments Desktop

And that's all. You will have those things you are working on directly on your Desktop.
I don't really know if you have to write all the absolute path in the ln and I am too lazy to try something else.