Comment 89 for bug 1575053

Once upon a time, basically all Unix applications abided by a simple rule: Don't create (non-hidden) files in the user's home folder without asking first. I find it completely maddening that application developers have stopped abiding by this rule. The home folder is *mine*. I should get to decide what goes in it, and where. The whole business with XDG user dirs violates this principle, and is therefore a huge mistake, in my view. (But at least you can delete those stupid things and (mostly) make it so they don't get re-created.) This business with ~/snap is just completely abhorrent to me. I deleted all the snaps on my system and installed things the old-fashioned way so that I could get rid of ~/snap. And then to have this issue marked as a mere "wishlist" item is just rubbing salt in the wound. And this crap about "some applications have to create non-hidden files in their snap folders for security!". No, they don't. They need to follow the simple rule: Don't create files in the user's home folder without asking. If those applications need to create files that a user may need to find later, they need to a) get permission to write in the user's home folder, and then b) ask the user where they want the file saved. Anything else is useless to me.