Re: dynamic menu shortcut allocation in gtk+ 1.2

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On 22 Apr 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> <timecop japan co jp> writes:
> > This feature seems absolutely unnecessary for my application.  The goal I
> > am trying to achieve is a consistent user inteface, and changing shortcuts
> > is out of the question.
> > 
> > I would like to know how to disable this feature, immediately after the
> > application starts, for each new menu that is created.
> > 
> > Thank you very much
> > 
> 
> You call gtk_accel_group_lock() on the accel group to disable this, I
> believe.
> 
> It will probably be turned off by default in GTK 2.

changing accelerators on the fly is definitely not going to be default-disabled
in newer gtk versions. it will however be possible to disable this per-user
through gtkrc options, and the current behaviour of conflict resulution will
be refined to be more sensible e.g. about mnemonics.

> 
> Havoc
> 

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