Ubuntu
xdg-user-dirs package

  1. Bug #204567
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 204567

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Michael Rooney (mrooney) wrote : Re: downloads should go to $HOME/Downloads : XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR should be set to "$HOME/Downloads"

I'd be very interested to see in a user study how many users could actually find their downloaded files if they didn't go to the Desktop. I think it would be best to leave it as the Desktop unless a link to Downloads was on the Desktop by default.