Gfilui

It looks like GTK3 prefers breadcrumb navigation in open/store dialogs over location box input. For some applications (e.g. nautilus) there are hints on the internet, how to permanently re-establish the location box. Of course Ctl+L is always possible to switch a file location dialog between the breadcrumbs bar and the location box input.

However, since I almost never use breadcrumb navigation I am searching for a switch which gives any user the chance to select his preference:

a) let GTK decide which form of dialogs to show (as is)

b) allow the user to select if he prefers breadcrumb bar over location text box or the other way around,

c) (this is, what Windows does): let him paste any string over a breadcrumb selection bar or click into the bar not an a breadcrumb to immediately make it a location box.

If there is such a choice, I would select "location box first" since I always have one or more running instances of a file browser (in my case: thunar or xfe) and I derive almost every new filename and proper folder from an existing one and copy it to the clipboard with Ctl-C and then paste it with Ctl-V to modify it until it fits my needs. Similar things are thus named as similar as possible without much typing effort. I can also affort long file names with some relevant keywords related to the content.

Is there a central place where one can influence this? If there is no such general setting, it should be added to GTK3!