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[Alkis Georgopoulos <2122199@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2122199

Title:
  Wrong launchpad translations of Desktop keyword causing issues

Status in xdg-user-dirs package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  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.

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