Oliver, the argument that ~/snap/<app> is “not just simply a
configuration dir” isn't particularly good, I think, as the same could
be said about the triple XDG directories for data, config and cache (all
of which default to be hidden).

It is the nature of the confinement that we build that these directories
cannot be relocatable by simply setting something in the user's
environment, and so we need to find something that works for all users.

We've already agreed to move it, and are slowly taking the steps towards
that. We'll get there.


On the subject of having access to e.g. XDG user directories, again it's tricky 
because they're relocatable by the user, but I think something like the phone's 
trusted helpers (like the content hub), which the flatpak people are now 
calling portals, are the way to handle that.

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  Please move snap user data from "$HOME/snap" to "$HOME/.snap" (or to
  "$HOME/.local/share/snap" in accordance with the XDG spec)

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