From release notes for FC5T3 (web)

[Jim Cornette]

Andy Green wrote:

> ... but I can say my personal touchstone for the wrongness of Gnome is
> the File Open dialogue box's hidden and undiscoverable Ctrl-L "feature"
> to get an editbox to type a path into[1].  Hidden features are evil and
> stupid, orphaned before they are born, whatever the right answer is it
> is not bringing another such abomination into the world.
> 
> -Andy

I agree that the button bar vs. the text bar is crazy if you want the 
text instead.

There is a checkbox under edit > preferences > behavior where you can 
check to always use text-entry location bar. ctl-l does not need to 
happen with this checkmark selected.

This in FC5T3 up to latest updates.

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