Greetings, all.
I recently migrated from LibreOffice and wanted to share an experience that I suspect many others new to OO run into as well. Judging by an old thread that I found and will link to later, I'm confident of this.
The OO file dialog boxes are a major handicap to person such as myself who have many saved Places/Bookmarks, therefore, it becomes a major hurdle to open and save files. Some people would simply suggest 'how' to navigate to the paths I mention, but this isn't helpful - I know how to do that and I have bookmarks because the paths are long and tedious. I wouldn't bother mentioning this, but it was a challenge for me to find how to correct this issue through a simple checkbox buried in the settings. Perhaps OO defaults to its own dialog boxes for a reason, though I'm not sure why it wouldn't default to the environment dialogs the user employs in every other place within their OS.
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=81618&p=377840&hilit=file+dialog+box+gnome#p377840 is the old thread I refer to. As I write this post, the graphic within has been viewed 5,840 times and that suggests (to me, anyway) that this is an issue for people.
Just a suggestion on my part. If others respectfully disagree, I certainly appreciate that as well. I simply wanted to bring up the suggestion because of the issues this created for me in my daily workflow.