Comment 23 for bug 1746710

I hope that the fix in https://github.com/ubuntu/snapcraft-desktop-helpers/pull/103 will land soon, this is totally not acceptable in an LTS release.

In addition to the annoyance of the duplicated directories, this can be unsafe, I imagine a flow like this:
1) user starts a snap application
2) duplicated directories appear
3) the user doesn't notice immediately, opens another application (es. Libreoffice Writer) and saves a file in "Documents" instead of "Documenti" (italian locale) because the name is similar. maybe he notices something strange but attributing the duplicated names to a temporary glitch
4) user finally notices that this keeps happening, checks the home directory through the file manager and then deletes all the directories with strange names
5) The file is gone and maybe two hours of the user's time (i think of a student writing a document as homework)

We'll see things like this happening often with this kind of bug. Maybe it seems harmless for technical people, but a large slice of Ubuntu users aren't technical at all and can easily get confused from this behaviour.