Ubuntu
xdg-user-dirs package

  1. Bug #204567
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 204567

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

Have you read comments on Brainstorm? Some people (including me) like the fact that the Desktop folder is also Download folder. I know that other operating systems have such a folder, but hiding downloads can be... how to say... bad. It's like with apt cache dir - if you don't look there, you can find many packages that you don't need, which take so much disk space... I noticed that this behaviour on other systems combined with non-technical users leads to mess in the download directory.
When I download a file, I generally want to open it immediately after download is finished. I simply hit Ctrl+Alt+→ and here we are: I see my file. Navigating to Places>Downloads is for me a waste of time.

I propose... actually, is there any GUI for configuring the dirs? If no, I propose making such a tool. It shouldn't be complex. It would be helpful for all people which would like to change default folders (not only Download dir, because everyone has a different way of organizing their files).