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Description of Problem:
"Well behaved" gnome 2 apps allow the user to customize their menu
keybindings by instantiating the menu with a single click, selecting the
menu item and pressing the desired binding. 

Evo ignores this completely.

I had a brief email conversation with Michael, as follows; I said:

I discovered, quite by accident, that Evo (1.5.x) doesn't let you change
keyboard/menu bindings like other well behaved gnome2 apps.  I've set
the appropriate gconf flag (/desktop/gnome/interface/can_change_accels)
and can happily tweak menu options in other gnome apps, but Evo just
ignores attempts to do so.

Any idea if this is by design, or a shell bug?   (FWIW, googling the
mailing list and searching bugzilla both came up empty.)

He responded:

dunno really, by design i thought.  or because it uses bonobo and bonobo
doesn't support it.

to change the menu bindings you can edit the bonobo ui definition files in
prefix/share/evolution/1.5./ui though.

To which I responded: 

Hrm.  Thanks for the answer, though it's not the answer I was hoping for. 
I think I'll file a bug against this.  It very well may be that it's a
bonobo problem - but none-the-less, this is the sort of break in
consistency that drives users crazy (and that critics love to harp on as an
example of how inferior open-source desktop solutions are...)

And so, without further ado, here's the bug.

Perhaps someone on the shell team could comment (and validate or refute
Michael's understanding of the issue)?