Re: what happened to custom menu accelerators?

[Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 12:41:19PM -0700, Henry House wrote:
> In Gnumeric (as well as The Gimp, it seems) is is possible to press a key
> combo while a menu is open and the mouse is over a menu item to set the combo
> just presses as the new accelerator for that menu item. Except that this no
> longer works in the latest Gimp. My old custom accelerators seem to have
> disappeared as well. Does anyone know if this is a bug or was intentionally
> removed? How can I get it back? Thanks!
>
> (Gnumeric 0.69, gnome-print 0.29, Linux 2.2, libc6.1, Debian, Alpha architecture)

That ability is part of gtk.  As of version 0.66 we switched over to
bulding with bonobo which (intentionally) does not support that
feature.   For bonobo based builds you can edit

    <prefix>/lib/gnumeric/<version>/gnome/ui/GNOME_Gnumeric.xml

to adjust the accelerators.