Today's updates solved the issue. I tried switching between English, German and French (installed French as third language for testing purposes) and everytime I was asked to update the folders. Therefore I set the bug status to fixed.
** Changed in: xdg-user-dirs-gtk (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- folders aren't properly localized anymore https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/134986 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs