Comment 302 for bug 1575053

I humbly want to express my disbelief in that such a seemingly simple problem: hiding Snap's own directory from the $HOME, which seems as easy as renaming $HOME/snapd to $HOME/.snapd, has been going on for 5 years, with a number of proposals and promises arising (as early as in [#18](https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1575053/comments/18) in 2017) and failing to deliver. Especially as this is the top bug report.

In 2017 it was pointed out that a fix should happen ASAP before Snap rolls out, and I agree - I guess that shot was already missed by long.

I fail to understand why Snap's data folder was visibly placed in $HOME in the first place, when it was a widely accepted consensus that data folders of specific apps must be hidden somehow. This really should be fixed promptly, it's ugly.

In any case, to me it seems to highlight some fundamental design problem that we have a hard-coded string in the codebase, that seems to be such a huge trouble to modify by even as little as adding a "." to it.