Add a manual address bar here to improve the user experience(For Ubuntu 26.04)

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For Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04, modify the functionality to enhance user experience and improve work efficiency. Add the option to manually enter folder addresses.

I believe you’re referring to adding a manual path entry bar — where users can type the full folder path directly and press Enter to navigate to it immediately.

If so, I agree this is a very useful feature and quite important in a file manager, especially for users who prefer working with exact paths instead of clicking through folders.
It would definitely improve efficiency and workflow.

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That’s not a file manager: it’s the file selection dialog.

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That’s the problem of many apps that still use old, outdated GTK3 file picker which is failure. New Nautilus file picker introduced in Gnome 47 is awesome (you have probably 100% of Nautilus functionality in file picker dialog).
I noticed this problem too back in Gnome 47, I hoped that there is a global file picker in system and all apps use that file picker, and when new file picker replaces old, automatically all apps use new file picker globally, but probably every app has kinda built in file picker instead of using one global from system, so every app needs to update its code to use new file picker, unfortunately.
I don’t know if Gnome devs can force globally to all apps - no matter in which technology are written - to use new Nautilus file picker, but it would be fantastic if they could and we would have new fantastic file picker everywhere globally

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But you said you use Ubuntu 24.04 which has Gnome 46 which does not have new file picker.
Ubuntu 26.04 will use Gnome 50 then you will have new file picker.
I use Ubuntu 25.10 with Gnome 49 and vscode uses new file picker here.

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But probably old file picker has Ctrl + L keyboard shortcut to edit path location. You can try that

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very good,This shortcut key is rarely known. I’m currently using Ubuntu 24.04.04 with X11, and Gnome will keep improving. We can now use the global Nautilus.

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Hi,

Good news: the file chooser portal was introduced exactly for this purpose.

I think Ubuntu 24.04 is too old and doesn’t offer the new GNOME file chooser, that’s why you still see the old gtk3 one.

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It’s not working 100% globally. There are still many apps that use old GTK3 file picker so it looks like they have it hardcoded instead of using global from system

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yes, apps shall be updated to use the native file chooser interface.
This API was introduces a decade ago, though sadly many apps still not switched to use it…

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It would be awesome if there was a way to force all apps (even with hardcoded GTK3 file picker) to use new one and to have new picker everywhere, also in QT apps