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you can change it system-wide... but there's a bug which means it constantly gets reset

the most annoying thing about the dialogs is if you type a filename in: instead of selecting the file with that name it starts doing a recursive search...

no-one has EVER wanted to do that

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This is rapidly becoming GNOME’s most famous bug. The developers still claim it’s working as intended.

GNOME suddenly changing things for the worse, breaking muscle memory and making previously easy things difficult or impossible, while tone-deaf developers intone the "it's not broken, your workflow's broken" mantra in the background, has become a regular thing. It's like living in hurricane country and accepting you'll need to replace the windows from time to time.

I really wish they'd stop doing this, though.

Have you tried either GNOME Classic or MATE? It seems like a difficult ask to request that developers stop trying new things.

> The developers still claim it’s working as intended.

If they are the developers they probably know what they intended.

To me, the most famous bug is that an entry is selected by default when you enter a directory. This renders it nearly impossible to select a directory (instead of a file) from the picker, because you will always enter the directory instead of picking it! The only way is to first enter the target directory, deselect the default with control-click, and then hit okay.

That's why I'm using Nemo as file manager in Ubuntu. Unfortunately the files dialog is still Nautilus but it's okish there, given I don't have to do much when picking a file or deciding where to save it.

Install nautilus typeahead search fork to fix that: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/05/enable-nautilus-type-ahe...

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