Comment 1 for bug 615742

Digging in the source code and its revisions, looks like it is indeed hard-coded, included in revision 441 ( http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~netbook-remix-team/netbook-remix-launcher/trunk/revision/441 )

It is perfectly undestandable that Home, Desktop, and even Examples (because of its unique nature) should be handled in a special way. But doing so with Downloads prevents the average user from removing it, or force him to edit XDG config files to eliminate the special folder status of the Downloads directory, which i guess is not a desirable solution.