What's the use of /share/ui/keybindings.rc?

[Hachmann]

There's a second keybindings file (similar to keys.xml, but much more incomplete) in the /share/ui/ directory.

It has been last edited 13 years ago.

I've tried modifying random entries in it, and that didn't make a difference.

Is this file used at all? If not, can it be removed to reduce confusion?

[Qantas94Heavy (qantas94heavy)]

There was previously code for Gtk::AccelMap::load to load the file and use that for menu keyboard shortcuts. This has long since been removed and presumably replaced with some other way of handling this: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/commit/222304de408e85f01ace7b5ec9f965440ff1079e

It seems this was only ever used by Application::Editor, which was apparently part of a failed attempt to refactor Inkscape code around gtkmm. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/commit/be8029ed57d68a7b8e94cfc5b82984a8b1c75e55

As such, I think this should be safe to remove.

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

Thank you, Qantas94Heavy!