I don't think we want (or can) change HOME in snapd (due to undesired consequences and breaking many snaps), it works as designed, i.e. gives snaps dedicated areas where they can freely write data to, including hidden files; access to real user $HOME may not even be allowed unless home interface is connected. I see an alternative approach that only affects file picker is already discussed in the snapcraft-desktop- helpers issue above, for now marking it invalid for snapd.
** No longer affects: snapd -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1798450 Title: [snap] File dialogs show snap's home directory instead of user's Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: How to reproduce: - Find a web page that has a file chooser (you can just paste `<input type="file">` into an empty HTML page) - Click the "Choose File" button - Click "Home" if you didn't start here - See that Chromium uses `/home/$USER/snap/chromium/500` as the home folder Expected behavior: The file picker should use the user's home folder, not the snap's, because everything else would be confusing for end users. Versions: snap 2.35.4+18.10 snapd 2.35.4+18.10 series 16 ubuntu 18.10 kernel 4.18.11-surface-linux-surface Chromium 70.0.3538.67 snap To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1798450/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
