I must strongly disagree with the design decision as noted by John here.
While it makes sense to delete some things (notably, cached data) upon
removal of an app, it does not make sense to delete all things.
I'm inclined to mark this bug as won't fix. There is no good precedent
or evidence that suggests this action would be beneficial to the user,
yet there is plenty of evidence to suggest it would be harmful to the
user. I would be ok with a change that deletes the cache only (the point
of cache is that it should be recoverable and not harmful to the user to
remove it), but any of the user's personal data or configuration for an
app, should not be removed. Instead, there should be some other UI to
allow a user to fully remove the data associated with an application
package, if the user CHOOSES EXPLICITLY to do so. Implicit destruction
of data is harmful, and it has been shown to be harmful countless times
throughout the industry.
I would also suggest that system-settings storage info has UI to delete
all current cached application data, similar to what Android has.
** Changed in: ubuntu-ux
Status: Fix Committed => Confirmed
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App .config not removed when app uninstalled
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