Gnome menu convention: Alt+E, C is "Cut" and not "Copy"

Bug #842409 reported by ADFH
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Bug Description

Normally when working in an application in Gnome, generally when one presses Alt+E, the Edit menu appears and then C will select "Copy". The non-menu, direct alternative is Ctrl+C.

Pressing Alt+E, T will generally select "Cut". The non-menu direct alternative is Ctrl+X

xmlcopyeditor doesn't follow this convention for the menu driven letter shortcuts.

Instead, Alt+E, C does Cut ... and Copy is Alt+E, O - I find myself cutting stuff all the time rather than copying.

This goes against convention in just about every Windows and Gnome app I've used. I expect, from a usability perspective, for an application to follow certain conventions.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: xmlcopyeditor 1.2.0.6-1build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 6 17:39:33 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xmlcopyeditor
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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