Show internal drives in sidebar of file-picker / file-saving dialog

[NBA2K1]

The file-picker / file-saving dialog of Linux Mint (Cinnamon 6.4.8) doesn't show the internal drives or network drives in the sidebar like nemo does.
It does show external drives like USB sticks, but not internal drives like a HDD.
I have to always click on "Other Locations", then I'm able to pick the drive I want.
I tried Favorites, and it does add an entry there, but it's the same as "Other Locations". Multiple clicks to get to my location.
I tried Bookmarks, but that doesn't change anything on those dialogs, only in nemo.

Is there no option to show the same sidebar as in nemo?

Edit: I'm talking about this:

[cplittlfield]

Yes, the GTK chooser has inadequacies that people have been complaining about since I switched to Linux Mint a couple of years ago. However, in its defense, it does pick up the locations I've dragged into the Nemo "Places" panel, including a couple on an externally-mounted drive. You can also get to any location in the file system by clicking on the "Other Locations" button and navigating to it.

But that last is, of course, a daunting task for users who have been trained by Windows to expect it all to be done for them, so I sympathize.

[NBA2K1]

What an unprofessional, condescending answer. ‘Trained by Windows to expect it all to be done for them’? Really? Maybe some of us just expect basic functionality without being talked down to by someone who mistakes snark for insight.

Good design adapts to users—not the other way around. If your defense of a broken system is ‘just deal with it,’ then maybe you’re the one who’s been poorly trained—by tribalist excuses masquerading as wisdom.

But hey, enjoy feeling superior over a file picker dialog while the rest of us live in the real world. Next time, if your contribution is just smug blame-shifting (instead of, say, solutions), do everyone a favor and spare us the lecture.

[cplittlfield]

I'm very sorry for condescending to you. And in case it isn't clear, I do recognize that clicking down a series of folders is an inconvenience for a lot of users, who need a more convenient way of finding directories. There are a lot of improvements that could be made to that interface, and I have been seeing complaints since I first switched to Linux Mint. However, as I remarked, the file picker is part of GTK, and not under the control of the Linux Mint team.

Yes, the Windows comment was snarky, but I do believe that Windows fosters a dependency on ease of use that prevents users from knowing how to fend for themselves when necessary. I have felt this way since Windows 1.1 was first introduced. Granted, I am an oddball. I got my training on IBM-DOS, long before Windows even existed, and I have never liked the Windows implementation of the graphical interface. So my snark was directed more at Windows than at the users who lack my long command-line experience.

Again, sincere apologies.

P.S.--As I also remarked, the file picker does pick up the directories I've dragged into the Nemo places in the side panel, so that is a convenience of which users could avail themselves.

P.P.S.--"Good design" is in the eye of the beholder. Obviously, the devs who wrote the GTK file picker don't agree with you about what good design is in this particular case, or they'd have written that window differently. Remember, this is free and open-sourced software, which is developed by disparate teams with disparate views. The mindset is also predicated on the view that "if you don't like it, change the code." I don't say this is ideal for the average user off the street, but it's part of the thinking, and it is a great departure from the practice of corporations who sell proprietary software. To some extent, we really do have to "just deal with" that fact.

[GitHubIsToxic]

Restoring the "Recent Locations" functionality that has existed before until Mint 18 would largely solve this same problem, see #1093.