I have checked and this seems to work properly in openSUSE Leap. In any case. it doesn't seem to be a YaST issue. xdg-user-dirs checks for the directories in every login, so it would be a desktop problem. As said, it works for me with several desktops in recent releases (even on new logins after having changed the locale with YaST). I can reassign it to the screening team to start another round of re-assigns or be realistic and close it as WONTFIX :-( It's reporter's choice so, Nenad, what do you prefer?