Ubuntu
xdg-user-dirs package

  1. Bug #204567
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 204567

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Lei Zhang (thestig-google) wrote : Re: downloads should go to $HOME/Downloads : XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR should be set to "$HOME/Downloads"

As I stated earlier [2] Fedora 10, OpenSUSE 11, Mandriva 2009, and Debian Lenny all use $HOME/Downloads. Ubuntu is the weird one. ;-)

[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-user-dirs/+bug/204567/comments/3