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Absolutely agree about the bizarre textbox that pops up if I accidentally press a key while the filename box isn't selected... what on Earth is it supposed to be doing? Does anyone want that feature, someone who thinks, "Yes, when I hit a key in a Save dialog, I'd like to have a strangely filtered list of the files that are there already!?"

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To be fair I use the feature a lot when picking a batch of files for editing. It just makes no sense for saving - it's a bad UX reuse attempt.

Very very rarely I search on saving, to find a file that I'm going to overwrite.

You may have heard the rumour that GTK/GNOME developers make software for simpleton users that don't exist. But you've just run into a power user feature that you don't understand.

Now, what do you think will happen if the GTK/GNOME developers get rid of that "bizarre textbox" so it doesn't get in your way? Yes, they'll get a torrent of abuse for "removing the last power user feature" or something. :-)

People were actually annoyed when they replaced the normal search with the new recursive one, so I doubt it.

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