[Bug 74895] Does not honor GNOME “Can change menu accelerators” setting

[Michael Trausch]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: evolution

Please describe the problem:
Evolution does not honor the “Can change menu accelerators” setting for GNOME applications.  I happened upon a menu item that would be helpful to me in working around bug 383543 and enabled the menu accelerator function so that I could map a key combination to the “Post New Message to Folder” option, however, when I restarted Evolution to make the setting take effect, I found that it isn’t honored.

Just to be sure I cover my basis, other GNOME programs *do* honor the
setting, including the GNOME Help Browser, GAIM (which did not require
restarting), Evince (which also did not require restarting) and others.

Steps to reproduce:
1.  Change the menu accelerators option in GNOME.
    a. Enable “Editable menu accelerators” in “Menu and Toolbar Preferences” OR:
    b. Enable “Can change menu accelerators” in “gTweakUI - Menus”
2.  Try mapping any Evolution menu item to a new key by following the GNOME procedure:
    a.  Hover over a menu option with the mouse (e.g., “Post New Message to Folder”)
    b.  Press any key combination to attempt to make it work.  No function key, C- key, M- key, or combination thereof works.
3.  Restart Evolution
4.  Retry step #2 (to no avail).

Actual results:
Nothing; menu mappings in Evolution appear to be static.

Expected results:
I expect Evolution to respect my GNOME settings and not have static accelerators mapped for the menu items; otherwise, the feature in GNOME itself is of relatively little use to me.

Does this happen every time?
Yes.

** Affects: evolution (upstream)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown
** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #383552
   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383552

** Also affects: evolution (upstream) via
   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383552
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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Does not honor GNOME “Can change menu accelerators” setting
https://launchpad.net/bugs/74895