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.
Same inconsistency in french for me
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.
Created attachment 29662 [details] [review] Change the Download directory to Downloads Update the directory naming and add the previous label to the compatibility table
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