[Pidgin] #10620: [FR] make reassigning shurtcuts (hotkeys) feature optional/more obvious

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#10620: [FR] make reassigning shurtcuts (hotkeys) feature optional/more obvious
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 Reporter:  gvy          |        Owner:              
     Type:  enhancement  |       Status:  pending     
Milestone:               |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.6.3        |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:               |  
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Changes (by deryni):

  * status:  new => pending


Comment:

 This is a GTK+ feature, popping up a dialog is likely to be incredibly
 annoying, simply hitting alt-<key> is not enough to do anything you need
 to be hovering over a menu item when you hit it (I'm constantly astonished
 that people hit these keys when hovering over menu items, I'm not exactly
 sure what they expect to happen at that point), this feature of GTK+ can
 be disabled and GNOME has (over the years) gone back and forth on whether
 they think the default should be on or off (I believe they currently have
 it turned on by default).

 I will admit that I think being able to bind non-modified keys is rather
 stupid (though I'm sure for non-text applications it is rather useful) and
 it may be worth looking into seeing if we can prevent that specifically
 (as that is almost always what people who run into this have a problem
 with). A quick look at the GTK+ docs doesn't indicate that we have an easy
 way of preventing some keys from being accepted unfortunately.

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