Re: "Ctrl+c" text in menu item gets lost

[Phil Wolff <adiabat centurylink net>]

Clearly, it's time to move Unity to the top of the Ubuntu "usual 
suspects" list.

I've submitted Bug #1409030 on Launchpad.

On 2015/01/09 02:33, Kjell Ahlstedt wrote:
> Yet another difference between window managers!
>
> It works as expected on Ubuntu Flashback, but the accelerators are 
> lost from the menus on Ubuntu Unity. Which operating system and window 
> manager do you use?
>
> For another discussion of differences between the flavours of Ubuntu, 
> see the thread on gtkmm-list starting at 
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtkmm-list/2014-November/msg00017.html.
>
> Kjell
>
> Den 2015-01-09 02:08, Phil Wolff skrev:
> > In 
> > gtkmm-documentation-master/examples/book/application/app_and_win_menus/exampleapplication.cc 
> > is this:
> >
> >   Glib::RefPtr<Gio::MenuItem> item = Gio::MenuItem::create("_Copy", 
> > "win.copy");
> >   //Setting "accel" works, but might be deprecated soon: See 
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708908
> >   //When it is deprecated, use 
> > Gtk::Application::set_accel_for_action() instead.
> >   item->set_attribute_value("accel", 
> > Glib::Variant<Glib::ustring>::create("<Primary>c"));
> >   submenu_edit->append_item(item);
> >
> > This code displays "Ctrl+c" in the menu item and the accelerator 
> > works as expected. However, when the suggested change is made:
> >
> >   Glib::RefPtr<Gio::MenuItem> item = Gio::MenuItem::create("_Copy", 
> > "win.copy");
> >   set_accel_for_action("win.copy", "<Primary>c");
> >   submenu_edit->append_item(item);
> >
> > the accelerator still works but the key combination hint is no longer 
> > shown in the menu.
> >
> > Is there something else that needs to be done to restore the "Ctrl+c" 
> > part of the menu display?
> > _______________________________________________