Thank you for the links, Sebastian and Daniel. I've resubmitted a bug report, because the one that was turned down was specifically about max-recents in dconf, rather than about the functionality.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit/-/issues/357 ** Bug watch added: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit/-/issues #357 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit/-/issues/357 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gedit in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1894878 Title: gedit has lost the ability to specify the max-recents value Status in gedit package in Ubuntu: Opinion Bug description: • Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS 64-bit • gedit 3.36.2-0ubuntu1 gedit used to have an option to change the number of recently-opened files in the Open dropdown button. Later, that option was removed (I don't know why), but we could still set it as follows (in this case, I've set it to 30, because I need a lot in my history): gsettings set org.gnome.gedit.preferences.ui max-recents 30 Unfortunately, even that has been taken away now, so there is no way to increase (or decrease, which some people say they need for confidentiality) the number of recent files listed. Please could this option be reinstated, because the current limit is too restrictive. Thank you To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1894878/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp