*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 122602 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122602
Hi! Of course, I have read all the comments for bug #122602. Sorry, If I
am being unclear, but english is not my native language, and my comments
may seem ambiguous.
I'll try to be more clear: Despite "Desktop" not being bookmarked in the
latest xdg-user-dirs(-gtk) packages, another folder named "Desktop"
(translated on disk to "Рабочий стол", "Bureau") is being created, which
is very confusing, because:
In all revelant places (Places menu, GTK file choosers, etc.), users
have TWO Desktop-shortcuts:
1. One points to the physical "Desktop" folder
2. The other points to the physical "Рабочий стол" folder (Desktop translation)
I beleive this happens due to unification of DESKTOP and DOWNLOAD dirs
in 0.8-0ubuntu3. xdg-user-dirs-gtk creates a bookmark for DOWNLOAD, and
DOWNLOAD points to DESKTOP in our package. But the folder created has
translated name, ignoring the already-present special-cased "Desktop"
folder. So, in recent daily livecds I always see 2 folders in my $HOME:
"Desktop" and "Рабочий стол"
See?
Please take your time to look at the screenshots attached to this bug.
They illustrate this all quite well.
I beleive there're two ways to fix this:
1. Remove translations for "Desktop" and "desktop" from all the .po-
files for xdg-user-dirs, so that exactly one special-cased "Desktop"
folder will remain.
2. Split DESKTOP and DOWNLOAD in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults again, so
the false Desktop folder will not at least be created by default.
I beleive GNOME does not yet respect xdg-user-dirs, and is hardly tied
to the special-cased untranslated "Desktop" directory, so it might be
useful to remove "desktop" and "Desktop" translation strings from the
template until Hardy and GNOME 2.22...
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[gutsy] VERY bad Desktop location inconsistency with xdg-user dirs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150906
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