With the update to Gnome 3.36 gedit unfortunately removed the old open file pop-up (a screenshot of the old pop-up can be found in this how-to on howtogeek.com). In the commit message of the removal the developer mostly cites maintenance burden as the main reason. As a developer I can relate to that and it does make sense to avoid duplicating functionality (and code) which is already present elsewhere. However, I also must say that with the pop-up I somehow always managed to find the documents I was looking for, but the file open dialog’s recent history in its default configuration just does not show enough documents to find the ones I need. This post lists two improvements I found useful.
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