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.

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  GTK save-dialogs input-focus moves from filename to file search if a
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