Ubuntu
xdg-user-dirs package

  1. Bug #150906
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 150906

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Artem Popov (artfwo) wrote :

Hey, this is not a duplicate, but actually a different bug! And no fix (known to me) has been released for it yet, judging by the changelogs of xdg-user-dirs* packages...

Due to DESKTOP and DOWNLOAD folders being kinda the same location, as specified in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults:

DESKTOP=Desktop
DOWNLOAD=Desktop

...The user-dirs-update program, creates another folder, with a name "Desktop", but the string is localized into user's native language e. g. "Bureau", "Рабочий стол", etc.

And while the actual "Desktop" shortcut does not get bookmarked anymore, the "Download" shortcut is still bookmarked! And not only bookmarked, but an actual physical folder is being created for it. And the folder is named like "Desktop", but translated. See?

While the "special-cased" Desktop folder has an untranslated filename in the home directory, another directory with a translated word "Desktop" is created there to serve the Download-folder purpose.

In Places menu, fileselector, etc. they look the same, because the first "Desktop"-folder is special-cased and localized in the UI, but the second is localized in the filesystem. Take a closer look at the screenshots, you'll see what I mean.