Unity

Accelerator in global menu doesn't update when dynamically changed

Bug #948415 reported by Nicolas Chachereau on 2012-03-06

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #610234: Should support changing shortcuts via can_change_accels (menu item selection + key combination). Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
AppMenu GTK+	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
Unity	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned
appmenu-gtk (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

How to reproduce:

While using the attached test application, the menu first shows "Quit Ctrl+Q". Click on the "Change menu" button.

Result: As expected, the menu entry now reads "Test", and the actual accelerator has changed to "Ctrl+T". However, the menu still shows "Ctrl+Q" as accelerator, while one would expect it being updated too.

(I tested the code with the recent Ubuntu Precise Pangolin Beta 1, and the bug is still there).

Note: while I'd be interested in a workaround, e.g. another way of dynamically changing the accelerator, I think the attached code is a perfectly valid use of the GTK+ lib, since it works with both GNOME Shell and GNOME "Classic". Unity should support it too.

Revision history for this message

Nicolas Chachereau (nicolas-chachereau) wrote on 2012-03-06:

Test application Edit (1.9 KiB, text/x-python)

Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) on 2012-03-07

Changed in appmenu-gtk:
status:	New → Confirmed
Changed in unity:
status:	New → Confirmed
Changed in appmenu-gtk (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed