It blows my mind that people would consider snaps remotely usable when
e.g. clicking "Home" in Nautilus does not lead a user to his/her actual
home directory (did anyone ever actually store a file in the sandboxed
home directory???) or when the user cannot access e.g. /tmp (where I
routinely put a lot of stuff I temporarily use from virtually any other
software).

It is hard to imagine a clearer example of buggy behaviour than this
thing with the Home directory, as far as I'm concerned. I understand the
appeal of using snaps from Canonical's side, but as they are, snaps are
nowhere near good enough for end users and are the main reason I am
considering switching away from Ubuntu after probably 10 years of
continuous use.

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Title:
  [snap] File dialogs show snap's home directory instead of user's

Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  How to reproduce:

  - Find a web page that has a file chooser, e.g. 
https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/file
  - Click the "Choose File" button
  - Click "Home" if you didn't start here
  - See that Chromium uses `/home/$USER/snap/chromium/500` as the home folder

  Expected behavior:

  The file picker should use the user's home folder, not the snap's,
  because everything else would be confusing for end users.

  Versions:

  snap    2.35.4+18.10
  snapd   2.35.4+18.10
  series  16
  ubuntu  18.10
  kernel  4.18.11-surface-linux-surface

  Chromium 70.0.3538.67 snap

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