What does HackerNews think of gtk3-classic?
Patches to bring back a traditional experience for GTK+3
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Unfortunately they also lost tons of functionality in the process. The fact that typing on a file picker starts a recursive search instead of simply jumping to the file/folder with the prefix you typed, is nothing short of hilarious.
Gtk-classic is the only thing that keeps me sane https://github.com/lah7/gtk3-classic
I have had success getting typeahead search working again in some applications with https://github.com/lah7/gtk3-classic.
It's a bug when it stalls out your computer for 2-3 seconds because the file picker is doing a recursive search through all of your files.
Thankfully, patches that fix this (along with some other bugs and anti-features) are actively maintained by community members, despite being ignored by the GNOME project.
Others may find that pushing towards server-side window decoration is annoying and imposing, so this is unfortunately an area where not everyone can be happy. In any case you may be interested to try a patch: https://github.com/lah7/gtk3-classic