Ubuntu
snapd package

  1. Bug #1575053
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 1575053

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Jonatã Bolzan Loss (jbopen) wrote : Re: Please move snap user data from "$HOME/snap" to "$HOME/.snap" (or to "$HOME/.local/share/snap" in accordance with the XDG spec)

Hi Oliver

We certainly understand the implications of this. Just to consider: how will I explain to my grandmother that the photos she just downloaded (using a snap software) are not on her friendly Home folder /Download or /Pictures, but the photos are stored inside the <software name> folder that is inside the <snap> folder that is inside her Home folder...? You see...

Really, the solution is not hiding the snap folder, but maybe making the snap software being able to access the Home folder/content... I know that it's not secure as it is intended with Snap packages, but I think that all of us agree that considering the "~/snap/<sofwarename>/" as the Home folder is definitely not user-friendly.

For a geek or a developer it is Ok, but for regular users, they should just look at their files in home folder, with their usual subfolders, as beautiful and comfortable as it always was. Regular users should not know (they don't need to know and they will not want to know) about this snap stuff, they just want to download the application from Gnome Software and use it in their Home folder.

We are patient, don't get us wrong :D The actual behaviour is not bad, it is just ugly.

Thanks for your attention.