Disable ~/Desktop folder creation

[lunario]

I do not use any standard folders like ~/Desktop, ~/Videos, ~/Downloads etc. on my linux system, so I don't want them in my home directory. I disabled all of them in the xdg default settings, but ~/Desktop keeps being created whenever i launch palemoon. Even when I disable all extensions it creates ~/Desktop upon launching the browser, so it is not related to any extensions as far as I can tell.
Is there some way to disable its creation? It must be related to the palemoon settings somehow. (obviously , i already set the download folder to ~/ so that's not what is causing the problem.).

[Isengrim]

This was previously reported here: Issue #1220 (UXP)

Edit: Also found this bug, which may be applicable. What do you have XDG_DESKTOP_DIR set to, and what happens if you append a slash to the end of that value, e.g. XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/" ?

[Moonchild]

I looked into it a bit more and it seems it's a case of "you can't have the cake and eat it too". The Red Hat sourced by-specification xdg_user_dir_lookup specifically looks for $HOME/ to determine if a path is relative, and if so flags it as relative and strips $HOME/ from it. That works for all relative paths using $HOME as a prefix, except $HOME without a slash - which results in an absolute treatment, which fails, and then our surrounding code falls back to $HOME/Desktop (mostly for historical reasons).
If we'd remove the fallback, it would fail on older systems in a more severe way; if we'd change the behavior of xdg_user_dir_lookup then it would behave differently in all other situations which would be worse too.

[New Tobin Paradigm]

tl;dr The previous discussion and decision stands.

[coffeebreak]

Perhaps this thread will help the OP: Palemoon creates a ~/Desktop directory when started.
(strategies offered to prevent /Desktop creation are in the bottom half, starting here)