Re: broken accelerator changes

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Jody Goldberg wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:33:47PM +0100, Tim Janik wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > > True, but 'bonobo disables it too' does raise issues of platform
> > > consistency.
> > 
> > 1) how/where's bonobo doing this
> Michael is better suited to identifying exactly how it is disabled.
> My bet is that it is a combination of explicity turning the feature
> off and not implementing the xml support that would have been
> necessary to handle user manipulated accelerators.
> 
> > 2) why is it doing that, this is not in the realm of bonobo to be
> >    decided/changed. (a control center option would be apropriate though)
> There was a thread on this in gnome-components when the new
> bonobo-ui code was done.  I belive the main issue was handling
> changes in the presence of merged menus.  eg if you changed the
> accelerator for a merged component then unmerged your change would
> seem to disappear.

for that, it'd suffice to disable accel changes in the menus maintained
by bonobo, but overall accelerator changes shouldn't be disabled.

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ciaoTJ