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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