At our university, we use a network-mounted /home directory, but it is inherently slow. Every employee is advised to store data that doesn't have to be shared among all systems in their local /scratch directory structure on that machine (desktops, practically), which is backed up regularly. So there you have a perfectly valid reason for using neither /home nor /media.
I'm speaking from an end user perspective, and it's completely inconceivable that I cannot access arbitrary files on my system. I have a snap application where I can hit "File > Open" in the menu, and the dialogue displays my Ubuntu shortcuts. All of them point to locations somewhere in /scratch. When I click on them, they don't open, and I had all kinds of suspicions but this. So really, from a user perspective, this is most definitely a bug. Using symbolic links doens't work, and since I don't have root access to the machine, I cannot simply re-mount devices. Is there any way to work around this until the fix actually reaches users (Ubuntu 18.04, again with no choice over the OS version)? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1643706 Title: snap apps need to be able to browse outside of user $HOME dir. for Desktop installs To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1643706/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
