[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2024-04-30 Thread Jeffrey Wiegley
Just another reason to avoid snaps. For me... why is LXD a snap??? If you're using LXD then the machine is likely an important hypervisor host and why wouldn't you want LXD fully integrated into the host's filesystem. Isolating the program that isolates others? No sane person would install

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2024-04-26 Thread Damian Zaręba
Would be great to have possibility to have hidden snap folder out of experimental field in snap settings. If you need any help, code-wise, money or whatever, just tell us. We will help. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2024-04-13 Thread Tony Cooper
The only really sensible use case for Snaps, if any, is packaging software that will never make it into an official repository, like some 3rd party software, e.g. MS-Office suite, or Photoshop. Servers use docker or podman to deploy services. But what ever you do, please sort out the mess with

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2024-03-22 Thread Joseph Erdosy
Adding my voice to this. I will continue to run `sudo apt autoremove --purge snapd` as the first command on every fresh installation of Ubuntu until they no longer live in ~/snap. ~/.snap is a perfectly acceptable alternative, ~/.local/snap is even better. I will not use snaps - and if that

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2024-03-22 Thread Joseph Erdosy
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[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2022-06-05 Thread Coeur Noir
echo snap >> ~/.hidden Might be a default configuration for all new users if included in /etc/skel ? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap"

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2022-05-14 Thread Zingam
Just add an UI option to hide this folder from the system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location To

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2022-04-10 Thread Kevin Dong
For someone who is still struggling with this, https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/experimental-flag-for-hiding-snap/28509 may help. It seems that sudo snap set system experimental.hidden-snap-folder=true works and puts data in ~/.snap/data, but snap still creates an empty ~/snap on app startups. --

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2022-04-07 Thread Eric Mazoob
I just upgraded to 22.04, and was unpleasantly surprised to see ~/snap as a new directory in HOME. If there is no solution for this issue I will be switching back to Fedora. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2022-04-02 Thread yannek
I can only echo acabal, foresto and a lot of the above comments. The technical merit of snap is not the point. But cluttering the homedir as a default _and_ offering no way around is not acceptable from any application. Hidden folders do exist for a reason, /var exists for a reason. In the end,

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2022-03-27 Thread Forest
The effectively forced use of Snap is what finally drove me to abandon Ubuntu. This issue played a part in that. To be clear, I am in favor of app isolation on desktop linux, and I find container-based packaging useful in certain situations. However, the Snap project has demonstrated over and

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2022-03-27 Thread Alex Cabal
Before 22.04 I was able to just uninstall snapd to remove ~/snap, and that was fine. But now that Firefox is being delivered as only a Snap in 22.04, I'm essentially being strong-armed into using snaps, because Firefox is probably the most critical piece of software on my system and I cannot work

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2022-03-18 Thread Forest
Thank you, Ivan. I have add my "affects me" status and a comment there. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2022-03-18 Thread Ivan
Given that this is affecting so many people: I've opened a request against Ubuntu-meta so that Snap stops being recommended by default and we make sure no packages provide snap-based installation only: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1965535 Feel free to comment there.

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2022-03-18 Thread Ivan
I would not care anymore were it not for the fact that snap is becoming the default. We will have a less and less usable system if we just remove snap. Can we not just request to the Ubuntu team that snap be removed from the default installation, and that no package should be made available only

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2022-03-04 Thread Wolfgang
I was so excited to see the link with more info on what the migration will look like: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/experimental-flag-for- hiding-snap/28509/21 ...only to find out that the end goal is to introduce a new ~/Snap directory (that - if I understand correctly - again cannot be changed

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2022-02-22 Thread Luke
@Maciej Borzecki I'll believe that when I see it. This thread is a five-year history of users requesting a fix and the dev team responding that the users are stupid and it's not really a big problem. Why should we believe you that this will ever be fixed, let alone documented? -- You received

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2022-02-22 Thread Maciej Borzecki
@lukeweller you probably guessed this is not part of any release yet. Documentation will be there in due time. In the meantime you're welcome to contribute to the discussion in the forum or grab snapd from edge and try it out yourself. -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2022-02-22 Thread Luke
@Maciej Borzecki So that's it? There's an experimental setting I can use to manually move my ~snap folder. No documentation to go with it? No plans to actually implement this feature for anyone who isn't extremely tech literate? That solution is less helpful than the ~/.hidden workaround that

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2022-02-22 Thread Maciej Borzecki
@lukeweller 3 commens up there's: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1575053/comments/308 there's also a forum topic with more details: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/experimental-flag-for-hiding-snap/28509 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2022-02-22 Thread Luke
Is anyone from Canonical actually working on this bug? And why tf is this still considered a "Wishlist" item after 1200 user reports and hundreds of comments? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2022-02-08 Thread Avamander
@dimitri-papadopoulos If there's a high likelihood that ceph will be used on a desktop distribution then its choice of snapshot directory has been incorrect in two ways. The way forward would be to not ignore conventions designed to avoid such issues :) -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-12-08 Thread Dimitri Papadopoulos
Note that .snap is also the default location of snapshots of the Ceph file system (https://github.com/ceph/ceph). It's a hidden (not visible during a directory listing) directory available in each directory of a mounted Ceph file system. See:

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-10-22 Thread Alex Murray
This is actively being worked on - for those interested you can follow the progress in https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/10836 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title:

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-10-22 Thread Danny Trunk
After 5 years there's still no fix. This is so annoying. I'm now getting rid of all snap packages and installing deb variants instead. Finally I'll purge snap and if these weird decisions keep on going I'll also move to another distro. Common Canonical. Seriously? -- You received this bug

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-10-19 Thread Robin
To Snap and Ubuntu developers, here is a concrete example of why this is important and so many people are annoyed. Imagine a user likes to back up their home directory. (Imagine that! Crazy stuff!) The user will likely exclude hidden files from the backup, so as to avoid filling their storage

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-10-18 Thread Karl Ljungkvist
Seeing how this has been treated for 4.5 years makes this seem like a pretty dysfunctional project. Please have mercy on your poor users and fix this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-10-16 Thread Nathan Hunt
I finally resorted to the uninstall snap workaround. Annoying users and being intrusive is a solid way to ensure the success of a package you're responsible for. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-09-09 Thread Ivan
I would not have that big a problem if Ubuntu had not made it the preferred way of installing and packaging apps now. It highlights more fundamental issues with the design of snap, with the management, and with the way that it was included and promoted. And this is just one issue that is

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-09-09 Thread Nagy Gergely
I humbly want to express my disbelief in that such a seemingly simple problem: hiding Snap's own directory from the $HOME, which seems as easy as renaming $HOME/snapd to $HOME/.snapd, has been going on for 5 years, with a number of proposals and promises arising (as early as in

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-07-19 Thread Pierre-Marie Dhaussy
** Also affects: snapd (Debian) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-05-06 Thread Roberto Lobo
@Gustavo and dev team In #259 it was said that an approach has been discussed and agreement uppon. I understand that on 2021-03-29 a fix was confirmed, although I could not find anything on the matter (including the design document). I am running snap/snapd 2-50 (full system, fresh install) and

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-05-03 Thread Nicholas Hein
** Also affects: snapd (Arch Linux) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-04-21 Thread Sergei Veselovskii
Hey guys what about the fix? Placing a directory that was meant to be hidden to user's home dir is uncool. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap"

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-04-20 Thread Sebastian Makowiecki
Ah my apologies was it fixed? Am I still running an old version? Thank you thank you thank you! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-04-20 Thread Sebastian Makowiecki
Hello kind pple, pretty please move this dir from the central home location, it does not belong there! Thank you kindly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
** Changed in: snapd (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-03-29 Thread Ian Johnson
** Changed in: snapd Status: Fix Released => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location To

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-03-29 Thread a59ff5
** Changed in: snapd Status: Confirmed => Fix Released ** Changed in: snapd (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title:

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2021-03-10 Thread Chris Vanden Berghe
Was wondering if this is still scheduled for 21.04 as suggested in the below comment by @niemeyer... > From recent conversations with the team, the approach has been discussed and > we have > an agreement on it, we should now see a design document made public in the > next few > weeks

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-12-31 Thread GizmoChicken
@Wolfgang: No worries. And as an early and vocal critic of the "$HOME/snap" directory (see post #14, for example), I share your frustration. But I've come to realize that devs truly want to, and are working to, resolve the issue. We (the users of this FREE software) just need to be patient.

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-12-29 Thread Wolfgang
GizmoChicken, I apologize for my post. Wanted to delete it but cannot figure out how. Was just so frustrated in the moment about the non-communication about progress and that Canonical decided to push snap in the current state, even though they participated from the beginning in this thread and

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-12-29 Thread GizmoChicken
Wolfgang (wolfgang-v) wrote: >@jean-miguel and anyone else affected: Please report your feedback to Ubuntu customer support too, so that they can draw their own conclusion on how their product decisions affect their user base. Wolfgang, you forgot to suggest that all dissatisfied users should

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-12-28 Thread Wolfgang
@jean-miguel and anyone else affected: Please report your feedback to Ubuntu customer support too, so that they can draw their own conclusion on how their product decisions affect their user base. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-12-28 Thread Kyan Jiao
This is my first time using snap, and i realized there's a 'snap' folder in my $HOME. Google redirected me here. It's really a surprise that this is still not fixed in 4.5 years. We don't care those internal stuff. Please just get rid of this folder, no more excuses. There are millions of linux

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-12-23 Thread Jean
We just updated all of our Ubuntu installations to 20.04 and first everything seems very smooth. But after installing chromium-browser the annoyances began. After slow program starts we realized it's no real deb package anymore and it silently installs a snap! Then users realized the intrusive

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-12-17 Thread Thomas Wehmöller
>From a high level view it seems like the project is far from being usable in mission critical systems if there are so many other problems that are prioritized over this community outrage. But maybe i am wrong and user feedback is just not valued here. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-12-09 Thread Martin Zbořil
there is a workaround - apt purge snapd - this works for me -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location To

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-11-29 Thread Tobi Schäfer
:thumbs_down: -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-11-09 Thread Wolfgang
My hopes are still up - see comment #259 for some more information about the process: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1575053/comments/259 I really hope 21.04 still is reachable. Not sure where to find the public design document though (or if it even exists yet). -- You

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-11-06 Thread praesepe
20.10 /home/user/snap still there... I have a bad impression that he will never leave -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-10-04 Thread Tichun
Reproducing this critical problem in 20.04.1 LTS. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location To manage

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-09-30 Thread Some Dude
I found this page helpful, https://www.kevin-custer.com/blog/disabling-snaps-in-ubuntu-20-04/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-09-22 Thread Ash Holland
I would suggest you read through the past comments on this issue, and the design document you mention. For example, "put things in the XDG directories (~/.local, ~/.cache, ~/.config)" has been suggested many times; it's explained earlier in the comments here (e.g. comment #30) why that wouldn't

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-09-22 Thread Facundo Quiroga
I really appreciate the effort put into snapd. However, as a fellow software developer, I honestly fail to understand how an issue that's been going on for 4 years and has the most heat of all issues (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bugs?orderby=-heat=0), that depends on **being

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-09-13 Thread Mr Aaron J Michaux
I came up with a convenient solution. I added the following to my crontab: * * * * * rm -rf /home/amichaux/snap Works like a charm. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title:

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-09-07 Thread iBART
It is insane... it affects me too! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location To manage notifications about

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-09-05 Thread GizmoChicken
@polirecyliente, Please allow me to reiterate what I wrote in post #265 of this thread: >I was an early and vocal critic of the "$HOME/snap" directory who: > >(a) complained about this issue in numerous comments, including comment #14 >(posted 2017-04-16), >comment #15 (posted 2017-05-20),

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-09-02 Thread Julián Tovar
I was doing a cleanup of my $HOME directory, and sadly I found this "snap" dir, this made me follow through and find this open issue... open for MORE than FOUR years already... is this fixable? Because if it's fixable and this much time has happened I can't help but to feel contempt for the snap

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-27 Thread Kevin Dong
For whom does not care about multi users and backward compatibility, this is actually quite straightforward to change the snap directory from '$HOME/snap' to '$HOME/.snap'. Change the hard-coded path and the apparmor rule is fairly enough for release 2.46: diff --git

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-27 Thread Kevin Dong
For whom does not care about multi users and backward compatibility, this is actually quite straightforward to change the snap directory from '$HOME/snap' to '$HOME/.snap'. Changing the hard-coded path and the AppArmor rule is fairly enough for release 2.46: diff --git a/dirs/dirs.go

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-27 Thread Kevin Dong
For whom does not care about multi users and backward compatibility, this is actually quite straightforward to change the snap directory from '$HOME/snap' to '$HOME/.snap'. Change the hard-coded path and the apparmor rule is fairly enough for release 2.46: diff --git

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-22 Thread Nabil Anam
This needs to go -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-21 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
> How do you have "many more" voices to pay attention to? 1018 people have marked We have millions of users, Avamander. > "I'm sorry you chose to feel insulted Your words. Now I'll stop here and hope that we can go back to being productive on this issue. Failing that, we'll lock this thread up

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-21 Thread Avamander
> Not in your preferred timeline, unfortunately, but we have many more issues and voices to pay attention to. How do you have "many more" voices to pay attention to? 1018 people have marked this issue as it affects them, if anything, you have *many fewer* voices to listen to elsewhere. > waiting

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-21 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
The way we select priorities for the project every single cycle for years is having several stakeholders (that's more than a dozen people, covering community, customers, development groups, etc) with several different perspectives in a room after having followed a process of funneling requirements

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-21 Thread David Norris
I already had an account, it's totally fine (see comments #184 and #192). I'm not individuality insulting anyone and I'm also not trying to be rude. But come on, 4 years? If the developers are going to drag their feet that long - an outright eternity in software development terms - on such a high

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-21 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
This is a place for respectful collaboration about the project and the issue at hand. People in the community are most welcome to participate and help, and many have done exactly that. Insults and blaming are not welcome here or anywhere else in this community, though, no matter how much you care

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-21 Thread Avamander
So are we now shaming people because that they are personally affected by a bug for years, that decided to participate in the community? I suspect the reaction would be a lot milder without all this thinly- veiled condescension constantly thrown at people here. I'm personally appalled. -- You

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-21 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
> a ridiculously mismanaged and misprioritized project So you create an account just to come here say that? Indeed we have different a notion of priorities and time allocation, David. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-21 Thread David Norris
You say "as soon as practicable" but this bug is over 4 YEARS old now. I think the frustration from the users is completely understandable and justified. It's by far the hottest issue on the list but the developers continue to waffle. Not that I think one more post is going to change anything,

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-20 Thread GizmoChicken
I was an early and vocal critic of the "$HOME/snap" directory who: (a) complained about this issue in numerous comments, including comment #14 (posted 2017-04-16), comment #15 (posted 2017-05-20), comment #19 (posted 2017-07-12), and comment #32 (posted 2017-10-22); (b) reverted the status

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-20 Thread Jamie Strandboge
> In addition the ~/snap directory is very explicitly, and non-trivially baked into apparmor profiles that are currently global to the system. This setting can vary per user. We have mechanisms in AppArmor to help with alternate locations for things (there is the home tunable and we could add new

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-20 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Zygmunt, let's stick to the design and the spec only. Speculation or subjective remarks do not help the conversation. Avamander, your personal notion of fault attribution won't help you or anyone else. There's a lot of people here. Let's please preserve this thread relevant and respectful.

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-20 Thread Avamander
> In addition the ~/snap directory is very explicitly, and non-trivially baked into apparmor profiles that are currently global to the system. And whose fault is that? Should've thought about it sooner. > Lastly .config and .local and .cache are just top-level directories with absolutely no

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-20 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
Those are not fixed locations. You'd have to cope with responding to the settings (that may differ per process) that govern their location. In addition the ~/snap directory is very explicitly, and non-trivially baked into apparmor profiles that are currently global to the system. This setting can

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-20 Thread Corrado Topi
I add my voice to the choir. We have two directories that can be used for all configuration and locally needed files, .config and .local. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title:

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-14 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Hi Seth, >From recent conversations with the team, the approach has been discussed and we have an agreement on it, we should now see a design document made public in the next few weeks (september still, hopefully), which means an implementation available in the next few months. So we'll see it as

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-08-14 Thread Seth
@Gustavo, happy to hear that progress is being made after nearly three years of reports. Do you have any estimate as to when the change will make it into the next Ubuntu LTS release? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-07-17 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Right, I spent my time explaining the design and trationale that got us here, and in which direction we'll improve it. It seemed much more interesting for everyone. > WE are whining about it annoyingly. You are the one saying that. It is a hot topic for several reasons, but most people in this

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-07-16 Thread Robin
>At this point you are the one ignoring what others are saying. Come on @niemeyer, no point throwing fuel on the fire. YOU guys screwed up bad with this. You have never really admitted that, just promised to fix it. WE are whining about it annoyingly. We have made our point and should stop.

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-07-16 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Folks, we said multiple times above that this is in the roadmap and there's on going work to get it addressed. We'll be posting more details about the actual change soon, and it's not just a rename. > The community and it's voice matters - ignoring it will just cause people to not support Ubuntu.

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-07-16 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
The real priority is on the upstream project. The Ubuntu package priority is irrelevant and I cannot change it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-07-16 Thread Avamander
> this now seems to be a priority bug which will be fixed fairly soon Indicated by the status "Wishlist"? > Nobody "wants to piss off" anyone, that is silly. Oh it absolutely is. But two years, people have their limits when assuming good faith. > Most of us here are not paying customers,

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-07-16 Thread Robin
@avamander If you read carefully the discussion above you will see that the "resistance" has crumbled, this now seems to be a priority bug which will be fixed fairly soon. The Snap team made a bad design mistake which is harder to fix than it looks, see posts by @zyga for detail. Nobody "wants to

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-07-16 Thread Avamander
The very least make it hidden. It's simply horrible in my neat home folder, there's really no arguing against that. The resistance to fix it baffles me the most. Add a dot to the damn path and make the snapd package install script `mv` the folder if it exists before the upgrade. It's not that

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-07-11 Thread Robin
@niemeyer Your tone suggests that you do not understand why this seemingly small issue is so important to many people. It is NOT just esthetics, or rigid ideology. Others have mentioned issues with mounts and disk space. Or imagine having a script which follows the XDG spec, for backing up or

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-07-10 Thread GizmoChicken
@niemeyer, As someone commented on the potential urgency of this issue back in 2017 (see comments #14, #15, #19, etc.), I fully appreciate that this issue is complex and that your team is diligently working toward a solution. Also, I support snaps. Your work is appreciated! Ganbatte kudasai!!

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-07-10 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
If not having a ~/snap in your home is more important than what the entire snap ecosystem provides, then removing it indeed sounds like the right choice. With that said, we've been working on this issue and Zygmunt says so above quite clearly, because we care, and always did. But we can only care

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-07-10 Thread Robin
Egregious violation of the XDG specification, almost a thousand users actively complaining, years of stalling, and still Snap managers are explicitly saying that this bug is not a priority. You have to ask what they think IS important, or whether they care about their users at all. @zyga seems

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-06-20 Thread Ty Poorman
It's been years. This is still annoying. May as well download my applications from websites like a Windows user if package management is going to be this dirty on Linux. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-06-15 Thread Harry Chen
@zyga Thank you! That's awesome! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location To manage notifications about this

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-05-12 Thread bitboy
@Oliver thx that worked. Its required that your user is owner of the snap folder. A bit complicated to realise on an ntfs partition but possible. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-05-08 Thread Oliver Grawert via ubuntu-bugs
to move the content of the dir you might be able to: stop all snap apps ... mv ~/snap /whereever/your/bigger/disk/is/mounted mkdir ~/snap sudo mount --bind /whereever/your/bigger/disk/is/mounted/snap ~/snap you might need to adjust permissions on the target disk, the snap dir must be fully

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-05-08 Thread bitboy
I didn't read all posts and i used snap yesterday for the first time. I installed League of Legends which worked after a few tries, so great work. But my system has 2 hard drives, a fast (and small) SSD for system data and a classic one for large data. Now League of legends is about 10 Gb in my

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-04-30 Thread tellapu
@zyga Wonderful! Thanks in advance for working on this! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location To manage

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-04-30 Thread GizmoChicken
@zyga GREAT NEWS! THANK YOU!! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location To manage notifications about this

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-04-30 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
To be clear, we've agreed to work on this in our cycle that runs for the next 6 months. It's happening! :) ** Changed in: snapd Importance: Wishlist => High ** Changed in: snapd Assignee: (unassigned) => Zygmunt Krynicki (zyga) -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-04-30 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
I understand the sentiment with ~/snap being a fixed location, shared by both yourself and other people who have commented here. The cost of making ~/snap arbitrary is very high but we have some ideas that we are actively exploring as a part of the 20.10 cycle planning and I suspect there will be

[Bug 1575053] Re: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location

2020-04-30 Thread Wolfgang
My main issue is that the snap folder is visible in the file manager and on the command line by default. With .snap that would no longer be the case. Workarounds for all file managers / file dialogs / file listing commands are not always easy. Is there any specific context in which it is

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