Create symlinks for the xdg dirs

common/desktop-exports

@@ -74,6 +74,17 @@ fi
 # Create $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR if not exists (to be removed when LP: #1656340 is fixed)
 [ -n "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" ] && mkdir -p $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR -m 700
 
+# Create links for user-dirs.dirs 
+REALHOME=`getent passwd $UID | cut -d ':' -f 6`
+test -f ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs && . ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs
+XDG_SPECIAL_DIRS=($XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR $XDG_DESKTOP_DIR $XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR $XDG_MUSIC_DIR $XDG_PICTURES_DIR $XDG_VIDEOS_DIR $XDG_PUBLIC_DIR $XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR)
+for d in ${XDG_SPECIAL_DIRS[@]}; do
+  b=$(basename "$d")
+    if [ -e $REALHOME/$b ] && [ ! -e $SNAP_USER_DATA/$b ]; then
+      ln -s $REALHOME/$b $SNAP_USER_DATA/$b
+    fi
+done
+
 # If detect wayland server socket, then set environment so applications prefer
 # wayland, and setup compat symlink (until we use user mounts. Remember,
 # XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is /run/user/<uid>/snap.$SNAP so look in the parent directory