Ubuntu
xdg-user-dirs package

  1. Bug #204567
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 204567

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Phylum (metus-m) wrote : Re: downloads should go to $HOME/Downloads : XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR should be set to "$HOME/Downloads"

This is very useful and should have been thought up years before today! It's already default on Fedora a year or so before. Leaving lots of stuff on the desktop is messy.