In all prior versions of Gnome, the open/save dialog box takes you to the same directory as the previous open/save operation.  Now it defaults to "recently used" files.

While you can debate what default is best for the average user, as a programmer I *need* the old behavior back.  If I have 3 branches of a project that I actively work on which have a 6-deep directory structure, it is insane for me to have to browse back into that directory structure each time I want to open a file.  I also can't just "favorite" them because there are too many directories, and the branches have identical names.

The *only* practical way to go from the file I'm working on to a related file in the same or neighboring directory is to start from the last-used directory!  It baffles me how fellow software developers could possibly change their own open/save dialogs to not have this capability.

Either way, I need this functionality or I can't practically use Gnome 3.  I don't care if it is the shipped default, but there needs to be a way to revert it.

I know you're going to laugh at me assigning it 'major' priority, but I really can't use Gnome 3 without the old open/save behavior!