Re: [Evolution] Shortcuts vanish on Evo 1.4.6

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > I've noticed one minor but somewhat annoying behavior in my Evolution
> > 1.4.6 installation.  Shortcuts that I've added keep vanishing.  
> > The five
> > default shortcuts remain, but new ones that I've added just disappear. 
>
> err...so i assume you talk about the (outlook style) shortcut bar at the
> left side? it's been removed from 2.0 and later. (first i've thought you
> talk about keyboard shortcuts or mnemonics, but since you have only
> *five* shortcuts... ;-)

Haha, you couldn't state clearer that you started bug hunting [1] after
I closed all those deprecated Shortcut Bar ones. The description of the
issue is more than well-known... ;-)


> > I'm not entirely positive about this, but I believe that they disappear
> > at times even as the program keeps running without any other indications
> > of problems.  (I rarely shut down the machine or evolution.)  Is this a
> > known bug in 1.4.6, or is it likely that I just have some problem with
> > my setup?
>
> i have no idea where that information was stored in 1.4.x... :-(
> anyone here still running a 1.4.x version?

No, but it is ~/evolution/shortcuts.xml, as I mentioned in my previous
post. My archive still holds information like this...

...guenther


[1] actually, not only hunting -- slaughtering bugs like mad :-)


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