In file open/file save dialog, files and directories are displayed in a
mixed order, without directories shown first. It seems that for proper
operation org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser sort-directories-first setting
needs to be set to true from now on.

This appears to have been a deliberate design change during the 3.11
cycle, to match the behaviour of Nautilus >= 3.5 which also defaults to
mixing files with directories. So I think this is likely to be wontfix
unless the Debian GNOME maintainers intend to diverge from upstream.

Whether or not you prefer "directories first", this seems fairly clearly
a matter of preference, and the setting still exists, so I think "for
proper operation" is overstating the severity.

    S

Hello,

On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 08:53:36 +0100 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:

Well, we declare our priorities are users, not upstreams. And of about
twenty users I asked about this change, none found it useful or good,
and some have seriously questioned the sanity of people who decided on
this. This clearly is a regression, as GTK+ isn't used by just GNOME,
and no other environments have implemented such change, so it's very
unreasonable to have different settings just in GTK+ 3 applications
outside of GNOME 3.

Mixing files and directories distracts users and makes finding needed
directories and files significantly slower, so I disagree it's
overstating.