Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by guiambros 901 days ago
Indeed; it's appalling. This thread [1] shows the absurdity of the situation; almost 8 years, and no signs of a XDG-compatible behavior. At least now you can hide it under ˜/.snap using the experimental flag "system experimental.hidden-snap-folder=true"

[1] Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1575053

1 comments

So another program poluting the home directory. People doing this shall be banned from publishing SW (hello Firefox, KDE).