Public bug reported:

After the forced upgrade to the snap version of Chromium, all of my
Chrome app shortcuts stopped working.

I have several apps which I launch like this:
chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/home/hackel/.config/appname 
--profile-directory=Default --app-id=abcdjdachboclehgmhnocadmlnkmehhi

They are now all broken.

So I can move my user-data-dir into ~/snap/chromium/current/.config and that 
works fine, but what do I do about the custom icons?  These were created in e.g.
~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/*/apps/chrome-abcdjdachboclehgmhnocadmlnkmehhi-Default.png
for all 5 different icon sizes.  But the corresponding snap icon directories 
are all broken symlinks to /snap/chromium/881/data-dir/icons/hicolor/64x64.  
(There actual directory structure ends with an empty icons directory.)  A snap 
running as a user wouldn't be able to write to those directories anyway, right? 
 Or does snapd have some mechanism to allow that?

If I try to use the Create Shortcut function in Chromium, I get this error 14 
times:
LaunchProcess: failed to execvp:
xdg-desktop-menu

It doesn't actually create any .desktop or icons that I can find
anywhere on the filesystem.

Is there time to restore the old deb package?  This snap is just *not*
ready for prime time!

** Affects: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  [snap] No access to user config directory for separate app IDs

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