Recent versions of Brave have changed the order and priority of files displayed when an “Open File” dialogue box is called.
This new change is counterintuitive and breaks reasonable workflows and expectations.
When the “Open File” box comes when uploading files to a site, now “Recent” files are displayed and highlighted. This makes absolutely no sense, because in almost all common user cases, if you are choosing to upload files, you aren’t choosing the files you’ve already recently chosen in the last upload you made.
In the past, this dialogue defaulted to the user’s home directory and then would default to the last used directory. That behavior is perfect.
Now, when uploading files to (say) eBay auctions, or to Flickr or other image sharing sites, or Instagram, or whatever, the dialog displays a list of the LAST files uploaded. So then you have to mouse over to “Home” and then click, and then click the directory you want, and THEN finally choose the files to upload. This is clearly a really bad design decision and there’s no way to change, customize, or turn it off.
Can this new behavior be reverted?
No comments, no acknowledgement, nothing?
This is really bad, and it’s a really senseless design decision. You choose a directory in your home directory, make an upload, then when you upload your next file you’re back to your root directory and there’s no memory of where you last were – just “Downloads,” “Documents,” and so on. This makes 100% zero sense. What is even the reason for this change?
It’s sad to see that there isn’t even a comment or any help or assistance here at all. I was hoping an expert would be able to explain this to me. Can anyone at least acknowledge that they’re seeing this message? Thank you.
I found another thread that might be related:
Because part of this new behavior also means I can’t manually enter a filename in the dialog box, which means that dot directories and hidden files are inaccessible to brave. This is super frustrating.
So I’m about to see if the issue is having the xdg-desktop-portal package installed, and if so this is going to be wonderful. I’ll report back with my findings.