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Re:System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment by tannhaeuser on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:49PM (#26799083)
I wish Ubuntu would maintain a gnome3+ fork like that, with top menu and reasonable file picker, or partner-up with System76. Not because I can't use another distro, but because I think a well-tested default target desktop distro is important and helping the community. I'm still on Ubuntu 20.04 because I need third-party based stuff to run, such as Chromium and Electron-based apps such as Skype and Teams (which however doesn't actually work). But gnome3 simply sucks so I'll have to move to something else; maybe Kubuntu or even Unity again (the community fork).
Re:System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment by HorkHunter on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @05:17PM (#26799443)
KDE really is the unsung hero of the Linux community
Re:System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment by smetj on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @12:16AM (#26802881)
Couldn't agree more.
Re:System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment by superkuh on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:52PM (#26799127)
File picker loss of functionality is the fault of Gtk3 and Gtk4. It would still apply even in systems without GNOME at all. Maintaing a fork of Gtk3 and 4 with patches to restore 2010 era functionality would be difficult but not infeasible. Arch does some of it.

I've looked at the code and it is quite a terrible mess. It's no two line patch to change settings anymore because everything gets reset multiple times in functions you don't expect.

Re:System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment by heftig on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @05:25PM (#26799532)
What is Arch doing?
Re:System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment by superkuh on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:16PM (#26800070)
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk3-classic/ is a partial fix, but it still doesn't restore the filename-entry location bar.