Snap does not respect directory settings #92
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I can confirm that this also happens on Debian stretch and Fedora 27 |
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I can confirm the same in Ubuntu 18.04 with the latest updates. For example:
start Gimp and check $HOME, the english-named directories are there. |
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It's a really important bug. Is Canonical really going to release an LTS distribution with such bug? It adds unwanted folders in your homedir as soon you run a new snap... |
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The fix for this is being reviewed in PR #103 |
…le use them (ubuntu#103) If the user-dirs.* exists in the $REALHOME and if the dirs are readable use them, fixes ubuntu#92 * Fall back to creating the XDG symlinks if needed * If the user has modified their user-dirs settings, force an update * Detect if XDG user dirs include content that should be migrated
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Just a question: will this be released for 18.04? It's quite big for an LTS release, the user experience is really poor if you have any non-english locale. |
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This is a remote part used at build time. The fix is released, and we've rebuilt all the snaps we maintain to take advantage of the fix. If there is a specific snap you'd like to see the fix in, I'd suggest filing a bug requesting a rebuild of the snap. |
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All clear! Thanks! |
I'm using Ubuntu 17.10, with system locale set to slovak. Hence my home directory was created with directories using slovak names (Dokumenty, Hudba,...). With some applications (e.g. Spotify, Brave), running
sudo snap install whateverwill result (besides the expected install) in new directories created within my /home (in english).This was reported here.
The same issue apparently happens if the home directory structure is modified with
user-dirs.dirs(as reported in the link above).The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: