For whom does not care about multi users and backward compatibility,
this is actually quite straightforward to change the snap directory from
'$HOME/snap' to '$HOME/.snap'. Change the hard-coded path and the
apparmor rule is fairly enough for release 2.46:
diff --git a/cmd/snap-confine/snap-confine.apparmor.in
b/cmd/snap-confine/snap-confine.apparmor.in
index 8b53423ca0..cde82139b5 100644
--- a/cmd/snap-confine/snap-confine.apparmor.in
+++ b/cmd/snap-confine/snap-confine.apparmor.in
@@ -343,7 +343,7 @@
# These should both have 'owner' match but due to LP: #1466234, we can't
# yet
@{HOME}/ r,
- @{HOME}/snap/{,*/,*/*/} rw,
+ @{HOME}/.snap/{,*/,*/*/} rw,
# Special case for *classic* snaps that are used by users with existing
dirs
# in /var/lib/. Like jenkins, postgresql, mysql, puppet, ...
diff --git a/dirs/dirs.go b/dirs/dirs.go
index 2986ef371a..ea37ad195e 100644
--- a/dirs/dirs.go
+++ b/dirs/dirs.go
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ const (
CoreSnapMountDir = "/snap"
// Directory with snap data inside user's home
- UserHomeSnapDir = "snap"
+ UserHomeSnapDir = ".snap"
// LocalInstallBlobTempPrefix is used by local install code:
// * in daemon to spool the snap file to
<SnapBlobDir>/<LocalInstallBlobTempPrefix>*
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Please move the "$HOME/snap" directory to a less obtrusive location
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