Hi Oliver

We certainly understand the implications of this. Just to consider: how
will I explain to my grandmother that the photos she just downloaded
(using a snap software) are not on her friendly Home folder /Download or
/Pictures, but the photos are stored inside the <software name> folder
that is inside the <snap> folder that is inside her Home folder...? You
see...

Really, the solution is not hiding the snap folder, but maybe making the
snap software being able to access the Home folder/content... I know
that it's not secure as it is intended with Snap packages, but I think
that all of us agree that considering the "~/snap/<sofwarename>/" as the
Home folder is definitely not user-friendly.

For a geek or a developer it is Ok, but for regular users, they should
just look at their files in home folder, with their usual subfolders, as
beautiful and comfortable as it always was. Regular users should not
know (they don't need to know and they will not want to know) about this
snap stuff, they just want to download the application from Gnome
Software and use it in their Home folder.

We are patient, don't get us wrong :D The actual behaviour is not bad,
it is just ugly.

Thanks for your attention.

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  Please move snap user data from "$HOME/snap" to "$HOME/.snap" (or to
  "$HOME/.local/share/snap" in accordance with the XDG spec)

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