On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 23:05 -0400, Eric Preston wrote: > Overview: > > I'm trying to read a large volume mailing list with threaded view. > When I'm bored with a thread I want to hit a key to advance to the next > thread. > > Problem: > > There is no accelerator key in evolution for View -> Go To -> Next > Thread, though there is a menu item, but I hate using the rodent when > reading mail. > > Question: > > Why can I not remap gtk menu item accelerators like I can in most well > written apps (even nautilus supports remapping accelerators keys with > the hover and type method)?
Evolution uses bonobo menus and not gtk menus directly, and so somehow this doesn't work (presumably a bug in bonobo) > > I did manage to delve into the source and xml files to discover that I > can remap most menu items (one I figured out the mess of xml) to add > something like: > > accel="*control**shift*n" > > to the appropriate xml entry for a menu item. > > But the question is... why can I not remap accelerators with the hover > and type method? Does this have something to do with evolution using > libglade (which I'm assuming is used to generate and load the xml)? those aren't libglade xml files, they're bonobo xml files. -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.novell.com _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
