Custom Shortcuts advice is vague and misleading

[Phil Hord]

To create a keyboard shortcut, you launch All Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Custom Shortcuts. The list of shortcuts is shown in a table with no headers. Each row contains the "action" and the "hotkey" which together make up a shortcut.

The instruction displayed in the status bar say this:

  "To edit a shortcut, click the row and hold down the new keys..."

This seems to work correctly for the pre-defined shortcuts. But on Custom Shortcuts it does not. You must click on the "hotkey" text to edit the shortcut hotkey. Clicking anywhere else on the row only allows you to rename the shortcut or change the command.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu45.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.25-generic 3.11.10
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 19 15:43:56 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-23 (604 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2014-01-03 (74 days ago)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 activity-log-manager 0.9.7-0ubuntu4
 deja-dup 27.3.1-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-datetime 13.10.0+13.10.20131023.2-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-signon 0.1.7~+13.10.20130724.1-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-unity 1.3+13.10.20131004-0ubuntu1

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

This was fixed in Ubuntu GNOME 17.04 with the redesign of the Keyboard panel as part of GNOME 3.24.