Re: menu accelerators

[Paul Barton-Davis <pbd Op Net>]

>> How do you make it so that the accelerators for menu elements are static?
>> I've read that this is "feature" that the user can change the menu
>> accelerator by pressing a key combination while the mouse pointer is over
>> the menu element. I think it's bad news.
>
>You think that being able to assign new accelerators on the fly is bad
>news?  It's the single most useful thing I've come across in GTK.  It makes
>my Gimp life much easier by letting me quickly & intuitively customize the
>accellerators to fit the task I'm doing.  Turning this off would be a major
>setback, IMHO.  Please don't.

as far as i can tell, this is not a built-in feature of GTK, but
something done by the GIMP. the menu accelerators in my Gtk-- apps do
not appear to be dynamic.

--p