@ziga and @niemeyer, thanks for explaining again that you will address
it.

I just want to address two things quickly.

@niemeyer: "this is an important personal preference issue to some of
you,"

Calling this a "personal preference" degrades it to something that
people want, where in this case this could arguably be called, more
universally, a bad decision (and I say "more" understanding that it may
not be 100% absolute). That directory contains a lot of information that
is irrelevant for most users. For them, that's noise. While people
tolerate noise at different levels, nobody appreciates having files
they'll never use mixed with their own important files. It's part of the
reason why dot files are hidden by default and most people are happy
about this. I'd like to see how many people who do not work in the
development of snap or snap apps prefer to have that directory there,
visible, all the time.

@niemeyer: "but please realize that creating directories in $HOME for
user content isn't novel"

I believe this is a very incorrect line of argumentation. Your position
is "others have done it too". This is not an excuse. Also they have done
it differently.

Creating directories in $HOME that are not hidden is a big no-no
everywhere. The rare exceptions are (GNOME's) user dirs (e.g., Videos,
Documents), which people have requested to move to less intrusive
locations, and can be configured accordingly. Other exceptions include
Eclipse Workspaces, Virtualbox VMs, etc. All configurable, all for
*user-created* content. None of them are meant to store configuration
files.

Other than that, the trend has been towards having a cleaner home with
less stuff and more organized. These days, even creating a $HOME/.snap
dir could be frowned upon. Instead, $HOME/.config/snap might be  seen as
more appropriate.

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