Comment 28 for bug 1575053
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| Oliver Grawert (ogra) 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) | #28 |
... "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" ...
luckily when using the home interface (and hopefully once your granny starts using snaps the app integration will be at a level where it will ask for permissions in a popup (similar to UbuntuTouch, IOS and lately even andoid) once the app tries to download something for the first time), work is being done in gnome-software for this), this is exactly what happens nowadays ...
but there are still developers that do not want to use interfaces, there are still cli apps (and will ever be) that want to put their output into their $WORKDIR etc etc ...
when snap stated there was no other secure way to solve these issues, interfaces were still rare and initially limited, having bits visible in the file manager in $HOME/snap was a good compromise (and still is IMHO).
What i was reacting to is:
"...Until now, most applications respect this and store their settings in folders with a . in front..." from a former commenter ...
$HOME/snap is not a config dir (and if we do actual config-only dirs they would most likely land in $HOME/.config/snap or some such to properly adhere to the established filesystem standards), it is the snaps home and workdir for now and the one securely accessible space for developers that do not want their snaps (be it server, desktop or cli apps) to use interfaces.