Modified keyboard shortcuts not remembered
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Gnome has had the hidden preferences option to set keyboard shortcuts directly for some time now. The functionality allows you to set a keyboard shortcut by highlighting the menu item and pressing the key you would like associated with it. This behaviour is broken in gedit.
Setting the shortcut works as expected as long as gedit remains open, but those shortcuts are lost when you restart the program.
Normally, I'd consider such a problem to be my own fault, and duly accept resetting my preferred shortcuts each launch as my penance for using such non-standard behaviour. However, I've noticed that the option is now exposed in the appearance control panel item in gutsy ('Interface | Editable menu shortcut keys'), and as such, I now feel entitled to complain :p
My theory is that the menu accelerators are generated from the text of the menu (or otherwise hardcoded), and that there is currently no facility to override that. My theories being what they are, I don't expect that I'm right, but anyways...
Changed in ubuntu: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Thank you for your bug. I don't confirm this option, changing the shortcuts work correctly on gutsy. The feature is a standard gtk one, does it work in other applications for you? Could you try with a new user if you get the same issue? What version of Ubuntu do you use? Note that the preference option is not new, it was in a separate dialog before