XDG "Desktop" item not translated on Live CD

I can see this too.
I found the following facts:
- if you run xdg-user-dirs-update after removing the .config/user-dirs.dirs file, it regenerates it without translating the ~/Desktop name, but everything else is translated.
- if you run xdg-user-dirs-update --force, the ~/Desktop name is translated too.
- /etc/X11/Xsession.d/60xdg-user-dirs-update runs xdg-user-dirs-update without the --force option.

I see this behavior in a regular install of Raring, *not* using a live cd:

Observation:

If a user has no ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs, it will be created at login (or by calling "xdg-user-dirs-update"). However, this translates ony some of the names to the current locale. In my case (German locale), for example it translates

Music -> Musik
Pictures -> Bilder

however, the following names will *not* get translated:

Desktop
Templates
Public

These names will only get translated by calling "xdg-user-dirs-update --force". I believe that partial translation of names is a bug.
Could someone please confirm that this happens in a regular install of raring?

Steps to reproduce:
1. delete your ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and ~/.config/user-dirs.locale
2. change to the German locale using the system menu
3. log out and log in
4. cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and observe that only some of the names have been translated to German

Still happens in 20.04 and 21.04.

Was filed upstream in Xfce but they confirmed it was an Ubuntu bug.
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/537

Though this issue only mentions about it during the Live CD, it also happens on an installed system.

Hi Yousuf,

I see nothing weird when looking at an updated Ubuntu 21.04. Can you please run these commands:

ls ~

cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

and show us in a comment here what they output.

Correction: I do see it in the live session, and I think the explanation is that the ~/Desktop directory is created before xdg-user-dirs-update is executed via autostart, and that in turn is because the ubiquity.desktop file (for starting the installation) is located there.

One way to fix it may be to change the installer (casper?) so ubiquity.desktop is placed in "xdg-user-dir DESKTOP" only after it has been created via xdg-user-dirs-update.

However, if I complete a non-English installation, the ~/Desktop folder is translated properly for me. So @Yousuf, if you see it on an installed system, please provide details.

I submitted a merge proposal, which I think fixes the live session issue.

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/885086

I tested and after installation the Desktop folder was translated.

Good, then we can keep focusing on the live session.

I'm unsubscribing the sponsors team as there seems to be an active discussion regarding the merge proposal and that should be resolved before anything is uploaded.