No mention of howto disable keyboard shortcuts in help

Bug #505727 reported by justin
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This bug affects 7 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Terminal
Fix Released
Medium
gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

When going into Keyboard Shortcuts in gnome-terminal, there is no clear indication on how a user can disable a keyboard shortcut. The interface does not currently suggest a way for the user to know that double click the shortcut key area and then hitting backspace will disable that shortcut. The help file has no mention of this functionality as well.

Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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justin (jlintz) wrote :

I've attached a proposed patch to gnome-terminal.xml to update the help on how to go about disabling a keyboard shortcut. This would just need translations for the other available languages.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606951

Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
status: New → Triaged
David Futcher (bobbo)
tags: added: patch-forwarded-upstream
Changed in gnome-terminal:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → New
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Edwin Lee (leeed2001) wrote :

I don't know whether it is appropriate to add comments to an old thread, but since it is still open ?I guess it is OK?

I encountered this when customizing keyboard shortcuts in gnome-terminal. There was no obvious way to remove one once it is in place. I remembered seeing something like this in the main system settings > keyboard > shortcuts UI, so I went there and found that `backspace` will clear the shortcut. It says so right on that UI. So why isn't this simply added as a label to the gnome-terminal shortcut UI? Seems like precendence and simplicity would both win here, as well as any newcomer trying to configure the shortcuts and getting frustrated when they can't simply clear any!

Thanks!

Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: New → Fix Released
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote :

Checked help file for gnome-terminal 3.28.2
Instruction exists so changing to "Fix Released"

Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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