Andy Green wrote:
... but I can say my personal touchstone for the wrongness of Gnome is the File Open dialogue box's hidden and undiscoverable Ctrl-L "feature" to get an editbox to type a path into[1]. Hidden features are evil and stupid, orphaned before they are born, whatever the right answer is it is not bringing another such abomination into the world. -Andy
I agree that the button bar vs. the text bar is crazy if you want the text instead.
There is a checkbox under edit > preferences > behavior where you can check to always use text-entry location bar. ctl-l does not need to happen with this checkmark selected.
This in FC5T3 up to latest updates. -- You may easily play a joke on a man who likes to argue -- agree with him. -- Ed Howe