Doing some introspection (all too rare for me!), I find that this is the reason I've started avoiding creating new files in LibreOffice, and why my Downloads and Pictures folders are flat, unstructured messes. Too many programs use the GNOME file selector.
Isn’t that “better” in some sense? You don’t have to actually categorize anything in order to find it later. Just type what you want and let tracker pull it up for you.
If I could just “accio my black jeans” I wouldn’t bother organizing my closet.
The assumes you know the name of the random image you downloaded to insert into the document. mjx3AmQXM5OrkxV7.jpg isn't super easy to remember (as a random real example chosen from my downloads directory)
I mean nothing excuses not having thumbnail previews. That’s just stilly. I just mean the default typing action to be search rather than typing the name of the file.
I think the OP was talking in the context of saving, where searching during the "save" process seems a much less frequent occurrence than giving the name to the file you are trying to save (which presumably you have to do 100% of the time).
I suppose it might be better? But the folder-first sort means I've got a miscellaneous pile of extracted archives very far away from the archives themselves… it's a complete mess.
