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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1894878 Title: gedit has lost the ability to specify the max-recents value To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/1894878/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs