Re: [Evolution] GTK/glade Accelerator Keys

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 23:05 -0400, Eric Preston wrote:
> Overview:
>
> I'm trying to read a large volume mailing list with threaded view.
> When I'm bored with a thread I want to hit a key to advance to the next
> thread.
>
> Problem:
>
> There is no accelerator key in evolution for View -> Go To -> Next
> Thread, though there is a menu item, but I hate using the rodent when
> reading mail.
>
> Question:
>
> Why can I not remap gtk menu item accelerators like I can in most well
> written apps (even nautilus supports remapping accelerators keys with
> the hover and type method)?

Evolution uses bonobo menus and not gtk menus directly, and so somehow
this doesn't work (presumably a bug in bonobo)

> I did manage to delve into the source and xml files to discover that I
> can remap most menu items (one I figured out the mess of xml) to add
> something like:
>
>       accel="*control**shift*n" 
>
> to the appropriate xml entry for a menu item.
>
> But the question is... why can I not remap accelerators with the hover
> and type method? Does this have something to do with evolution using
> libglade (which I'm assuming is used to generate and load the xml)?

those aren't libglade xml files, they're bonobo xml files.

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc.
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