Thank you for your distribution, which I’ve been using since version 16.04.
The defect seems to concern Ubuntu Budgie 24.04 since Solus Budgie does not show it :
So those should be the names of the folders in your Home folder.
If they are still in english you’ll need to check that your locale/region & language settings are set to French.
Thanks for your quick answer, @fossfreedom.
I ought to have specified that both of them are set to French.
Same problem on a friend’s UB 24.04.
good good - and the home folder names? are they in french?
yep - as you can see the folder names are in english - the mapping of what is shown in nemo file-manager can be found as per this Q&A Change default location of document folder of user - Ask Ubuntu
Thanks, but I never did that with UB 20.04…
And folder names are in French.
That’s why I think there’s a bug.
what is the content for the user-dirs file as per that link?
Hi fossfreedom,
I had the same problem too: while language is correctly set to italian in budgie properties, and while giving locale in terminal shows everything correctly set to italian, nemo folders were still in english; I’ve edited ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs by hand (~/.config/user-dirs.locale was set to italian) but nothing changed. I’ve been in need of renaming directories by hand.
I haven’t yet tried to create a new user, to see if that problem only comes with user created during installation but as soon as I’ll do, I let you know.
Sil
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Probably also worth looking to see if this is a bookmarks issue i.e. look at this file ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks and see if the names are still in english.
Content for ~/.config/user-dirs:
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR=“$HOME/Desktop”
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR=“$HOME/Downloads”
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR=“$HOME/Templates”
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR=“$HOME/Public”
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR=“$HOME/Documents”
XDG_MUSIC_DIR=“$HOME/Music”
XDG_PICTURES_DIR=“$HOME/Pictures”
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR=“$HOME/Videos”
And all five bookmarks are still in english in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks
It seems that the xdg-user-dirs-update and xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update are buggy Bugs : xdg-user-dirs-gtk package : Ubuntu
My testing switching to Finnish, logging out and logging in the dialog is displayed when xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update is run to switch both the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file contents and the ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks contents.
Then switching back to english United States, the dialog is not displayed on login. Thats Bug #864777 “Switching locale to French, then back to English do...” : Bugs : xdg-user-dirs-gtk package : Ubuntu
I had to manually change the contents of those files and rename the folders myself. Then nemo showed the correct values.
What a mess.
Thank for searching and trying, @fossfreedom !
Thanks to @puffettacicciottella too for her contribution !
So, all we have to do now is waiting for the bug to be fixed…
We French are lucky, we also speak French in Belgium and Canada.
I’ve found a workaround.
If you switch to Canadian French, just delete any duplicate English directories and you’re all set.
But that’s just tinkering… 
Content for ~/.config/user-dirs:
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR=“$HOME/Bureau”
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR=“$HOME/Téléchargements”
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR=“$HOME/Modèles”
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR=“$HOME/Public”
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR=“$HOME/Documents”
XDG_MUSIC_DIR=“$HOME/Musique”
XDG_PICTURES_DIR=“$HOME/Images”
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR=“$HOME/Vidéos”
Content for ~/.config/user-dirs.locale:
fr_CA
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Same for spanish configuration, half in english half in spanish.
Hi @donanpher!
Have you tried any Spanish variants?
I haven’t tried it yet, but I will when I can.
Thank you!
Hi, you are right.
My initial configuration was Spanish (Spain). I changed it to Spanish (Mexico) and when I logged out and logged in again I got a message asking me if I wanted to change the name of the folders in my Home dir, this time they were all correctly changed.
Problem solved!
Thank you very much!
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I guess it works for all major languages with national variants.
This issue, no doubt related to the new installer and Ubuntu’s switch to Xfce’s language management system, is a bit of a mess…
It ought to be corrected as soon as possible. 
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