Gedit unconditionally overwrites .config/gedit/accels

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

The file .config/gedit/accels used to contain a way to customize keyboard settings for Gedit. In earlier versions, it used to be possible to modify this file (for example so that Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn switches between tabs, which would be consistent with Gnome Terminal).

In the current Gedit version available in Ubuntu 15.10, the file .config/gedit/accels is always overwritten with clean defaults every time Gedit starts. It is therefore no longer possible to use this file to customize keyboard shortcuts. Also, the Ubuntu version of Gedit does not come with any UI that make it possible to customize keyboard shortcuts inside Gedit either. Hence, there is no easy way at all to customize keyboard shortcuts.

This was fixed in Gedit 3.12, ref https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723626

Unfortunately, Ubuntu 15.10 uses a rather antique version of Gedit, where this problem remains unfixed.

Since you've decided (for various good reasons, I'm sure) to bundle an older Gedit, please consider backporting the fix referred to above.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: gedit 3.10.4-0ubuntu13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-23.28-generic 4.2.6
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Jan 14 20:25:23 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-26 (49 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The current serie has 3.18, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/3.18.2-1ubuntu4

If you would like a backport of the fix to older serie could you follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates ?