GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 211387
Ability to set keyboard shortcuts for menu and toolbar commands
Last modified: 2005-03-09 17:50:43 UTC
This is not a bug, it's purely for the wishlist. It would be nice to be able to set the keyboard shortcuts used for all the commands in evolution. I just started using evolution and before that I used RMAIL in emacs so I'd like to be able to set the shortcut for "New Message" to 'm' and "Expunge" to 'x' and so on. I guess I'll learn the new shortcuts in a while, but it would be cool to be able to select sets of shortcuts like you can in the preferences when composing a mail.
I think such config options are more than nice - they're essential! I'm used to "navigating" my mail with one hand using the arrow keys and hitting the Del-key for deletion in YAM on AmigaOS and that's the fastest and most productive way for me to handle my mail, and I'm not happily going to use a client that won't let me continue doing this. Each to their own, the config options must be there.
I use Gnome as my desktop, and almost all GTK+ apps have a feature which allows you to add a menu shortcut by typing the shortcut while hovering over the item. Handy. I was very startled to see that this didn't work in Evolution; it uses GTK, right? I can deal with new shortcuts after a while, but having _no_ shortcut and no way to set one drives me batty.
marking as dup, bug 260522 is targetted and much more clear. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260522 ***