Steam Snap Status & Improvements

Yes, exactly.

25.04 is already using a newer Mesa compared to what Steam snap depends on, and I tried to open an issue in gaming-graphics repo, but there was no response.

Not having Mesa 25 won’t be ideal for RX 9070 users

Forgot to mention: There’s no activity in the core24 branch in the last 6 months :frowning:

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I have no bad intentions saying it, but it looks like this snap is abandoned, there is no activity in issue tracker (i.e. Can't Create Desktop Shortcuts · Issue #421 · canonical/steam-snap · GitHub) so reporting bugs seems to be pointless, no activity in commit history, so… not sure if I would recommend installing it

I hope the situation gets better

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It is not abandoned, but there is a re-org going on regarding the teams, which might take a bit, but it will definitely stay fully supported by Canonical

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The shortcuts are being created inside the Snap folder, specifically in $HOME/snap/steam/common/Desktop, instead of the user’s desktop.

I ended up noticing another problem, the icons that would be used in the shortcuts are inside $HOME/snap/steam/common/.local/share/icons instead of being in $HOME/.local/share/icons

Which makes the system unable to find them.

good to know, thanks