i was about to report the same but instead i found this one. It is sad that i had to search the web to find the man pages for xdg-user-dirs. I actually found the man pages from open-solaris, so i post the url here for quick reference.
* http://www.unix.com/man-page/OpenSolaris/1/xdg-user-dir/ * http://www.unix.com/man-page/OpenSolaris/1/xdg-user-dirs-update/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to xdg-user-dirs in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381490 Title: xdg-user-dirs has no man pages; URL in README is incorrect -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs