snap home directory should be hidden

Jesse Steele jesse at jessesteele.com
Tue Jun 9 18:14:36 UTC 2020


As good and growing as snap is, the extra clutter in my Nautilus file 
explorer is a problem. It is likely a violation of UX theory because it 
is a folder I can click into that I should never click into. It surely 
violates the principle of "Linux for humans" only code resides there. 
And, I need my GUI to focus on Documents, Downloads, lmms, et cetera.

I need to cd into the .ssh folder at times, but I never click into it. 
The snap folder should be the same.

This is the only, but major, turn-off for me with snap. I know Mark has 
been a big fan of snap, I appreciate running things in containers, I 
love the cross-distro benefit of snap, but whoever all is invested in a 
clickable/visible home-snap folder, please have a soon-coming update to 
move it to .snap and rely on ~/.snap thereafter.

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