Comment 9 for bug 556933

There are two issues in this bug report. The first one: folder renaming issue. The second: You want xdg-user-dirs to have a completely different way of handling system language changes (directory renaming -> creation of symbolic links).

I asked in comment 2 if you want this bug report to be about the folder renaming issue. You answered yes (comment 4) and I adapted this bug title and description. Then you changed your mind in comment 6 and 8. By the way, I changed this bug title back to its original that you used at the time of reporting this bug.

It is time choose what issue you want have in this bug report. If you choose the first one, it's obvious that this bug's title and description need updating to make it a bug instead of wishlist/feature request.

This packages description says: "This program reads a configuration file, and a set of
default directories. It then creates localized versions of these directories in the users home directory and sets up a config file in $(XDG_CONFIG_HOME)/user-dirs.dirs (XDG_CONFIG_HOME defaults to ~/.config) that applications can read to find these directories."

-> Your proposed fix (symbolic links which I consider as a workaround) is the complete opposite to what this package does and therefore has to be reported to upstream. Please bear in mind that the upstream might not accept your proposition.

If your proposed fix is so easy to make then you might provide us a patch. That patch needs of course be forwarded to upstream because this package is imported from Debian * unless you (or someone else) are ready to provide a patch for every new upstream release.

* As you can see at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-user-dirs/0.12-1ubuntu1