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<link type="guide" xref="index#common-other-problems"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="mail-layout-changing"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="calendar-layout"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.34.0" version="0.3" date="2019-09-28" status="final"/>
<credit type="author">
<name its:translate="no">Andre Klapper</name>
<email its:translate="no">ak-47@gmx.net</email>
</credit>
<include xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="legal.xml"/>
<desc>Moving and changing tool bar buttons, menu entries, and keyboard shortcuts.</desc>
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<title>Customizing tool bar and menu items</title>
<note style="warning">
<p>These steps are for tech savvy users. These steps are not suitable for average users.</p>
</note>
<p><app>Evolution</app> offers no graphical interface to customize its tool bars or items in menus.</p>
<p>Advanced users can experiment by exploring and editing the corresponding system-wide file(s) under <file>$PREFIX/share/evolution/ui/</file>.</p>
<p>Copy those files with the file ending <file>.ui</file> which you would like to modify to your personal configuration folder <file>$HOME/.config/evolution/ui/</file>.
Modify the files in your personal configuration folder so the next <app>Evolution</app> software update will not overwrite your changes.</p>
<p>The modified files will be used if the <code>evolution-ui-version</code> attribute of the root <code>ui</code> element matches the version of the default files provided by <app>Evolution</app>.</p>
<p>To change keyboard shortcuts, edit <file>~/.config/evolution/accels</file> while <app>Evolution</app> is not running. Commented lines start with a <code>;</code> character and will be ignored. Not all shortcuts can be changed though.</p>
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