Linux DR doesn't display the key shortcuts in the menus.

[7318]

I didn't knew DR already displayed the key shortcuts in other OSes but in Linux DR doesn't display key short-cuts beside the menu functions.

[OrbWeaver]

I think this might be a GTK theming issue. Clicking around through various core GNOME apps (I tried Files, Disks, Videos, Terminal and gEdit) I see no menus with shortcuts listed. All the apps have moved to the new "header bar" style where you don't actually have the regular File/Edit menu bar, just various buttons and a "Menu" button which brings down a speech bubble-style menu which does not contain any shortcuts.

If this is implemented at the GTK 3 level rather than with GNOME-specific code, then I guess it applies to wxWidgets too which uses GTK 3 as a backend. In which case, I'm not sure there is anything we can do in the DR code to fix it, but you might be able to solve it by changing to a different GUI theme.

[7318]

How do I change to a different GUI theme?

For future reference I would suggest to post somewhere screencaps of the principal screens of the editor so we can compare visually those kinds of errors.

[OrbWeaver]

7 hours ago, 7318 said:

How do I change to a different GUI theme?

On Ubuntu I use the gnome-tweaks tool to adjust this. It's not installed by default but is available in the repository.

[7318]

changing the theme with gnome-tweaks from yaru-dark to adwaita (the dafault for ubuntu) didn't bear any change related to shortcuts being present, it might not be related to the theme of GTK?

[OrbWeaver]

25 minutes ago, 7318 said:

changing the theme with gnome-tweaks from yaru-dark to adwaita (the dafault for ubuntu) didn't bear any change related to shortcuts being present, it might not be related to the theme of GTK?

Maybe not, it was just a guess after all. Nevertheless, I don't know how to change this. I cannot find anything in the wxWidgets documentation relating to the visibility of shortcuts in menus, nor can I find any discussion of this issue.

[7318]

shall I make a bug report then?

[VanishedOne]

On Mint Cinnamon, I don't see key shortcuts in DR either, but if I open Xed (which seems to use GTK, from a glance at its Github) I see them there.

[datiswous]

Maybe this forum topic is related (on wxwidget forum)? https://forums.wxwidgets.org/viewtopic.php?t=46522

[datiswous]

Audacity uses wxWidgets and it has keyboard shortcuts in their menu's.

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Audacity's fork of wxWidgets 3.1.3 (https://github.com/audacity/wxWidgets) should
be used as this includes bug fixes that are not yet available upstream.
WxWidgets should be built with gtk2 as gtk3 is not yet fully supported.

 

Edited March 27, 2021 by datiswous

[datiswous]

Workaround:

The keyboard shortcuts can be added manually to the menu.xml file from the install folder. Add some extra spaces to move the shortcut  to the right. With every change of a shortcut, the change has to be changed in this file as well.

Example code:

Spoiler

	<subMenu name="edit" caption="&amp;Edit">
		<menuItem name="undo" caption="&amp;Undo                                                 ctrl-z" command="Undo"  />
		<menuItem name="redo" caption="&amp;Redo                                                 ctrl-y" command="Redo" />
		<menuSeparator />
		<menuItem name="copy" caption="&amp;Copy                                                 ctrl-c" command="Copy" />
		<menuItem name="paste" caption="&amp;Paste                                               ctrl-v" command="Paste" />

 

This file gets overwritten with every new install, so make a backup that you can use to overwrite in the new install.

Edited May 27, 2021 by datiswous