Bug 23796

Summary:	Default XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR name should be "Downloads" not "Download"
Product:	xdg-user-dirs	Reporter:	David Siegel <david.siegel>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Alexander Larsson <alexl>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	david.siegel
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Change the Download directory to Downloads

Description David Siegel 2009-09-08 11:59:31 UTC

In user-dirs.defaults, currently DOWNLOAD=Download. Setting DOWNLOAD=Downloads is more consistent with the plural form folder names in $HOME:

Plural (the rule):
  Templates
  Documents
  Music (arguable)
  Pictures
  Videos

Singular (exceptional cases):
  Desktop: Special case, corresponds to a place.
  Public: A bit strange. Maybe "Shared Items" is better, but I digress.

The DOWNLOAD directory contains discreet entities of a common type "Download". There are possibly many entities of type "Download" in the directory, so the folder should be called "Downloads".

Additionally, Mac OS, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 use a directory called "Downloads" so switchers may be slightly confused when they are looking for "Downloads" and see "Download" instead.

Comment 1 antistress 2009-09-08 16:16:05 UTC

Same inconsistency in french for me

Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2009-09-18 03:53:12 UTC

That makes sense to me. We need to add a new translation string an make sure the translators in the translation project have a change to translate it before releasing it though.

Comment 3 Sebastien Bacher 2009-09-18 04:05:47 UTC

Created attachment 29662 [details] [review]
Change the Download directory to Downloads

Update the directory naming and add the previous label to the compatibility table

Comment 4 Alexander Larsson 2009-09-18 05:30:10 UTC

Commited

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