[lubuntu-devel] Problem in Lu 20.04 w/ "open file" "dialogue" window showing no contents

[Fritz Hudnut]

wxl:

Yep, thought you were a cyclist . . . I have an olde Trek 1000 from the
80's and a Lightning Phantom from '13 or '14??

Anyway, on the ride I was mulling over your cryptic statement that, "Your
Downloads folder is not your Downloads folder . . . maaannnn . . . " cue
voice of George Carlin . . . .  And I finally got it, "My Downloads folder
is not my Downloads folder . . . it's the snaps Download folder . . ." so I
get it now, but still it seems to be a PITA . . . .  I try to look around
to see if there are any "clues" before I start posting my verbosity on
forums . . . but I didn't notice anything that would have told me, "this is
a snaps image of a home folder that isn't showing you anything" so that I
could perhaps look around for where that might be . . . .

Or, why don't "they" have a folder in the list of default folders that
would be labeled "snaps home folders" . . . so we could mouse our way
there, or have a clue that snaps has "hijacked" our home files, but doesn't
show them . . . ??????  Then if we complain about snaps they diagnose us
as, "passive-aggressive" and say we are trying to "hijack a thread" . . . .
 😤🤕🤔

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 2:31 PM Walter Lapchynski <wxl at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 01:34:54PM -0800, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
> > I figure I'm a fair shake
> > older than you are, so unlikely to "change"
>
> Well, I'm old enough to be a parent to an adult!
>
> > have to bounce out for my afternoon
> > recumbent bicycle ride to maintain mental stability and reduce
> > passive-aggression
>
> FYI bikes are my job so let me know if you ever need anything (off
> list).
>
> In any case, I will say one thing: Snaps kind of suck, but we also kind
> of need them. One of the most difficult things for software developers
> is to figure out how to package their software for all the different
> distros there are. Snaps are a sort of universal package along with some
> other competing ideas (Flatpak and AppImage), so this makes it super
> duper easy to just work everywhere. However, like anything, they have
> their downfalls. This is one of them. The extra footprint is another.
> The sandboxing is weird and often you end up with a huge bloat of
> dependencies you don't really want. But they do have their benefits.
>
> --
>        @wxl | polka.bike
> C563 CAC5 8BE1 2F22 A49D
> 68F6 8B57 A48B C4F2 051A
>
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