** Description changed: Snap package developers should be encouraged to store user data according to the XDG Base Directory Specification [1][2]. I installed the "notes" app via snap on a Xenial desktop: - sudo snap install notes + sudo snap install notes and launched it using the snap wrapper script "/snap/bin/notes". The script created a directory "$HOME/snap/notes/1", resulting in the placement of the directory named "snap" directly under my home directory, a situation that is undesirable for two reasons: - The XDG spec calls for user data to be stored under "$HOME/.local/share" (or rather, that's the specified default when the environment variable XDG_DATA_HOME isn't explicitly set, and default installations of Ubuntu don't appear to set it) . - It clashes with the directory naming style on my desktop systems. All directories located directly under $HOME that are not prefixed with a dot are named using Capital Case -- e.g. "Desktop", "Documents", "Pictures" -- a scheme which is consistent with the defaults defined in "/etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults" from package "xdg-user-dirs". A directory under $HOME having an all-lowercase name introduces an ugly stylistic inconsistency and it complicates the navigation of directories in the shell when tab completion is case-sensitive. Therefore snap packages should base the value of SNAP_USER_DATA on the value of XDG_DATA_HOME (or its specified default). For the "notes" snap, this would be "$HOME/.local/share/snap/notes/1". If however the XDG spec is considered irrelevant to snap packages, please consider using a proper UNIX-style dot-prefixed directory, "$HOME/.snap". [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html [2] https://wiki.debian.org/XDGBaseDirectorySpecification + + Workaround + ========== + If you don't want to see the snap folder, create a file named .hidden and in that file, type + + snap + + You may need to reload your file manager to see the change.
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