Re: [Evolution] Customizing key bindings

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

Thanks. This has been requested frequently over the years. It's good to
know someone's paying attention :-)

poc

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 10:38 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> You gotto wait till Evolution-2.12. If you have built from source, you
> can try this beta patch which adds keyboard shortcuts to Evolution.
>
> It copies those xml files to .evolution/ui/* and stores all the new
> keybindings there. On an upgrade, it merges the new xml files with what
> you have changed. But it doesnt check for conflicting keys there. But in
> the shortcut editor, it does search for conflicts. And the worst thing
> is that it requires an restart for Evolution to start applying the
> changes. 
>
> -Srini
>
> PS: Beta Quality Patch. It needs more work atleast in terms of
> unreffing/freeing. 
>
> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 18:41 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > You can *carefully* edit the XML files
> > in /usr/share/evolution/<version>/ui. Trouble is, you get to do it all
> > over again for each new Evo update. It would be nice to have a personal
> > XML settings file which could override at least some of this stuff.
> >
> > poc
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 16:33 -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> > > Is there a way to customize the keybindings in Evo?
> > >
> > > In particular, it drives me absolutely around the bend that C-w is bound
> > > to "Close", and no warning is given when you type it.
> > >
> > > Usually I agree that "are you sure?" questions are annoying, but I have
> > > a number of accounts that all require passwords so starting Evo is a
> > > chore (I can't figure any way to get Evo to remember my passwords across
> > > a restart).
> > >
> > > Sometimes when I want to delete a message I accidentally use C-w instead
> > > of C-d (somewhere in my brain I think "close this message" and C-w comes
> > > out of my fingers), and BOOM! there goes my entire Evo session down the
> > > drain and there's nothing I can do about it.
> > >
> > > So frustrating!
> > >
> > > Any help?
> >
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