Comment 3 for bug 556933

On 2010-08-22 16:37, papukaija wrote :
> However, you suggest that "Update standard folders"
> should add language links to folders, not rename them while the real
> issue is that (in your case) ~/Desktop is renamed to ~/Bureau, but only
> if it is empty. Do you want to keep this bug as a feature/config change
> request or a bug about that folder renaming issue?
>
Thanks for reviewing this.
The very fact that ~/Desktop disappears because it is renamed ~/Bureau
is so full of hazardous and possibly severe consequences that YES YES
YES it must be considered a bug.
I just mentioned a few cases; they would fill a book.
Of course, only those whom some people call foreigners (who renamed
their Desktop) actually *see* the consequences of the problem (assuming
they do not just shiver).
But that doesn't mean the other ones do not *meet* the problem, and here
is a good example.
Every time someone writes "cd ~/Desktop" in sample code on the Web, and
even worse in a script, they're doing a BIG MISTAKE. They should
explain that French people must type cd ~/Bureau, Russian ones cd
"~/работая стол" etc, even more complicated for the script.

Making a symbolic link instead of renaming is so obviously the solution
(allowing to use either ~/Desktop or ~/Bureau) that I wonder why the
only answer to my bug report is not "Gosh, you're right". Again, I do
not see at all what is "Incomplete", the report is self-explanatory.

And, once again, it is not *my* case, it is *the world's case*.
I'm not reporting the bugs for myself but for the sake of Ubuntu.
In fact, despite I speak French and as unforeseen as it may be, I run my
session in English.
But I've got Russian, Spanish and Romanian in other sessions, and that's
great !!!