Comment 6 for bug 1878076

The bug has been periodically tripping me up for years, but recently I discovered that it has basically stopped my elderly uncle from using Libreoffice (which defaults to GTK file picker on Xubuntu at least) on bionic. Priority really needs to be higher, at least if the intent is for Ubuntu to be usable by non-power users. To be honest, I felt actually embarrassed when I realized that the standard process for saving a file in a non-default folder ("Save As..", click folder, type filename) is broken. Particularly as, as mentioned above, the highlight in the text entry is misleading.

At the risk of sounding like I'm sulking, going to have to seriously consider moving my - and all my family's - machines to a non-gtk based desktop environment if upstream's attitude to a significant usability bug like this is to just ignore it for years. An ubuntu-specific patch would at least reduce the urgency somewhat! I'd settle for an option (gtk.ini or whatever) to disable the search functionality if that would help.