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xdg-user-dirs package

  1. Bug #204567
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 204567

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Severin H (severinh) wrote : Re: downloads should go to $HOME/Downloads : XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR should be set to "$HOME/Downloads"

I know that "me-too" comments are not particularly useful, but I think it's time to make this rather trivial change. Are there any valid reasons that this hasn't been done in previous release cycles?