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

2019-07-20 Thread yak mandango
@zyga: In your last comment in April, you mentioned a refactor would let $HOME/snap be moved to $HOME/.snap instead. You also mentioned creating "views" of the new .snap directory. You didn't mention the possibility of using XDG paths, or making the path configurable per system or per user. Would

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

2018-09-26 Thread yak mandango
How does the snap team feel about snap following the XDG standard for files currently under $HOME/snap? Should snap keep files in those XDG directories (e.g. XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents")? Could it, even? Or if it shouldn't or couldn't, why not? -- You received this bug notification

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

2018-08-18 Thread yak mandango
$HOME/snap is for user content. User content should be user-accessible. However, it looks like the feature is not very user-friendly. Should users need to change how they organize their files, to gain access to the features of snap? For example, today the firefox snap created $HOME/snap/firefox,