Does not honor GNOME “Can change menu accelerators” setting

Bug #74895 reported by Michael B. Trausch
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evolution
Invalid
Unknown
evolution (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

Please describe the problem:
Evolution does not honor the “Can change menu accelerators” setting for GNOME applications. I happened upon a menu item that would be helpful to me in working around bug 383543 and enabled the menu accelerator function so that I could map a key combination to the “Post New Message to Folder” option, however, when I restarted Evolution to make the setting take effect, I found that it isn’t honored.

Just to be sure I cover my basis, other GNOME programs *do* honor the setting, including the GNOME Help Browser, GAIM (which did not require restarting), Evince (which also did not require restarting) and others.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Change the menu accelerators option in GNOME.
    a. Enable “Editable menu accelerators” in “Menu and Toolbar Preferences” OR:
    b. Enable “Can change menu accelerators” in “gTweakUI - Menus”
2. Try mapping any Evolution menu item to a new key by following the GNOME procedure:
    a. Hover over a menu option with the mouse (e.g., “Post New Message to Folder”)
    b. Press any key combination to attempt to make it work. No function key, C- key, M- key, or combination thereof works.
3. Restart Evolution
4. Retry step #2 (to no avail).

Actual results:
Nothing; menu mappings in Evolution appear to be static.

Expected results:
I expect Evolution to respect my GNOME settings and not have static accelerators mapped for the menu items; otherwise, the feature in GNOME itself is of relatively little use to me.

Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been
reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report
any further bugs which you find.

Changed in evolution:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
Changed in evolution:
status: Unknown → Rejected
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