Bug#594427: xdg-user-dirs: "Update standard folders" should add language links to folders, not rename them

[Josselin Mouette]

Le jeudi 26 août 2010 à 00:07 +0200, Papou a écrit :
> Limiting this explanation to French and Desktop, what xdg-user-dirs is trying to do when the user 
> changes his language from English to French (and agrees) is to rename Desktop to Bureau.
> For multiple reasons, see below, this is an impossible thing to do.
> Instead, all these reasons disappear if a Bureau -> Desktop symbolic link is created.
> And, for the same reasons, that symbolic link must be kept should the user change his language away from 
> French.

> The fix is simple:
> - instead of renaming Desktop to Bureau, create a Bureau -> Desktop symbolic link
> - instead of renaming Bureau to <any language>, do nothing
> - the rest remains unchanged

> unfortunately, corrective action must be taken for already polluted systems:
> - corrective action, Desktop must be created and desktop data migrated to it by user

Which makes the fix not simple.

You should bring this issue upstream. There is no reason for Debian to
diverge from upstream on such a large scale.

Cheers,
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