change gnome evolution keyboard accels

Solution 1:

I found out myself that I've to remove the comment semicolons in front of the lines in ~/.config/evolution/accels while evolution is stopped. Then the uncommented lines are respected by evolution. Yet evolution overwrites ~/.config/evolution/accels but it keeps the edits.

Example of ~/.config/evolution/accels with a F8 beeing assigned

; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/mail/mail-goto-menu" "") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/mail/mail-folder-select-thread" "<Primary>h") (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/mail/mail-to-do-bar" "F8") ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/mail/mail-find" "<Primary><Shift>f")