[Bug 16876] New: Keyboard Shortcuts doesn't include Text Editing Shortcuts

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Ubuntu | gnome-themes

           Summary: Keyboard Shortcuts doesn't include Text Editing
                    Shortcuts
           Product: Ubuntu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: i386
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gnome-themes
        AssignedTo: seb128 at ubuntu.com
        ReportedBy: foner-ubuntu-bugzilla at media.mit.edu
         QAContact: desktop-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com
                CC: foner-ubuntu-bugzilla at media.mit.edu


In Breezy Colony 5 [-and- in Hoary, btw...]

I'm trying to change my text editing shortcuts to Emacs.  If I go to System ->
Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts and then collapse all categories, I'm only
left with 3:  Desktop, Sound, and Window Management.  Yet if I click on Help
there, the frame that pops up quite clearly has a table mentioning the
nonexistent Text Editing Shortcuts.  I don't know if this is a documentation bug
or a program bug (or both), but it's persisted at least since Hoary.  Some
searching has also revealed other people in other distributions complaining
about this being missing.

What's more, I'm unsure how I'm actually supposed to do this even without the
GUI.  Searching the web has revealed setting gtk-key-theme-name in ~/.gtkrc-2.0
(which presumably would be seen by Gnome 2.x), but I also see conflicting pages
claiming that this is deprecated (and, in fact, ignored!) and that one should
now be using the "gnome-keybindings-properties" dialog in gconf-editors. 
However, I can't see a way to launch gconf-editors from any toolbar, and
expecting any non-expert user to know about this program and launch it from the
command line seems like we're expecting them to do lots of websearching first to
even find it (since the UI doesn't make it available).

So what's the -right- way for me to do this, and what's going on with the
(apparently long-standing) inconsistency between the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog
and its self-documentation?

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