My mom permanently deleted 2 years of emails because of this design flaw... This is not just a minor annoyance. This is a real issue with real consequences.
She browsed ~/snap trying to understand what it was. To her it appeared as a folder of empty folders, like one of those useless folders that sometimes get created in your home directory. Well, after verifying that is was empty, she deleted it. What she didn't realize is that it contained hidden files, namely ~/snap/thunderbird/current/.thunderbird. Had the snap folder itself been hidden this would never have happened because 1) she knows not to touch any of the hidden files in ~ because they are where programs store their important data and 2) she wouldn't have seen it and been bothered by it in the first place. You could argue that her deleting the folder was dumb. I would argue that exposing an appdata folder because an app might save your image somewhere deep inside it doesn't exactly pass the grandma test either. This is not a problem for us technical users of course. We know how to browse hidden files, how to create symlinks and bookmarks for easy access. But a user that doesn't understand what "snap" is shouldn't be served a "snap" directory in their home directory. If ~/snap can't be moved easily, at least add it to ~/.hidden by default in the next Ubuntu release. Please. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575053 Title: Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1575053/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
