Stéphane Gourichon says it much better in fewer words than I've been able to in https://askubuntu.com/a/1040278/34154:
> @ZygmuntKrynicki Thanks for popping in and explaining that the code does what you intend. I respectfully and totally disagree with what you write. Hard-coding paths is very poor practice and cannot be meaningfully justified, even in the name of security. It's just basic inflexibility. -- 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