Public bug reported: Traditionally, the "Desktop" folder has been translated to Greek as "Επιφάνεια εργασίας". Here's an example from Ubuntu 22.04:
# gettext -d xdg-user-dirs Desktop Επιφάνεια εργασίας AFAIK, upstream xdg-user-dirs is still using that: https://translationproject.org/team/el.html But an Ubuntu specific translation made in Launchpad overrides that to just "Επιφάνεια": https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/noble/+source/xdg-user-dirs/+pots/xdg-user-dirs/el/+translate Here's an example from Ubuntu 24.04: # gettext -d xdg-user-dirs Desktop Επιφάνεια Having an Ubuntu-specific customization for the very important "Desktop" keyword causes multiple problems: - Applications such as mate-panel that have their own localizations for "Desktop" show errors. For example, in Ubuntu MATE, if I go to the Locations > Desktop menu (Τοποθεσίες > Επιφάνεια εργασίας), I'm getting the attached error dialog; this doesn't happen if I restore the correct translation. - In several cases users will end up with multiple "Desktop" folders, e.g. a user that upgraded from 22.04 to 24.04 who decides to reinitialize his .config (user-dirs.dirs) folder will now get a different Desktop folder. - The same thing happens in some other languages too, for example in pt_BR. Please either restore the translation and backport it to 24.04, or if the idea is to have a "Desktop folder translation that doesn't contain spaces", then please propagate this change to all other projects such as upstream xdg-user-dirs and MATE desktop. ** Affects: xdg-user-dirs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Assignee: Ubuntu Greek Translators (ubuntu-l10n-el) Status: New ** Attachment added: "VirtualBox_sch-noble-mate_06_09_2025_12_21_20.png" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2122199/+attachment/5906397/+files/VirtualBox_sch-noble-mate_06_09_2025_12_21_20.png ** Changed in: xdg-user-dirs (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Greek Translators (ubuntu-l10n-el) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2122199 Title: Wrong launchpad translations of Desktop keyword causing issues To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-user-dirs/+bug/2122199/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
