help shortcut key breaks document search

Bug #67791 reported by John Leach
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
evince (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

This is on Edgy, in sync with the latest repository.

The help shortcut is the "s" key and seems to be in effect during the document search utility. Because of this you can't search for anything with in "s" in it, as typing that letter just brings up the help app.

A workaround is to just type the search with the caps lock on. The search is case-insensitive so it still works.

It obviously needs fixing though :)

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Jonh Wendell (wendell) wrote :

Hi. Thanks for your bug report.

As far i know, the 'help' shortcut for most applications is F1. Evince belongs to that group.

Are you using a localized (translated) version? If so, try to run evince from a terminal with the command:

$ LANG=C evince

Evince will open in English, so you can verify the shortcut for 'help' command.

Changed in evince:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

If you open the help menu, what shortcut is written next to the item? Did you activate the option to change accelerators for menus? Maybe you pressed s while the menu was open?

Changed in evince:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
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John Leach (johnleach) wrote :

There is an S next to the menu item. I see now that when you press a key whilst hovering over the menu item that it sets the shortcut. Nice feature!

I guess I must have somehow done this by accident. This seems a little too easy to do accidentally, but then again I've never done it before in all my years of gnome use (assuming it's not a new feature this week :)

Still, should the shortcuts work whilst typing into the search box? It's the same with gnome terminal too. It seems kind of wrong to me, but I guess that's just my opinion.

Sorry to have wasted time.

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Jonh Wendell (wendell) wrote :

Yes, this feature is nice. You can enable/disable in applet gnome-ui-properties. Try it!

System->Preferences->Menus & Toolbars

Changed in evince:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the gnome-ui-properties option to edit menu is not activated by default, you probably changed that setting. There is no reason to have shortcuts not working on some parts of the UI. Marking as rejected since that's not a bug

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