Comment 1 for bug 739228

1) I think, the reason for not showing these Icons is, that there are no icons. For the gnome-default entries (Save, Save as..., Open, Quit, ...) 'stock-items' could be used. For me, it semms difficult/impossible to use them in common with the user-editable menus (gpcb-menu.res).
I am thinking about (and did some programming-tests) a just partly user-editable menu. There will be some fixed menu-items (like Open, Save, Copy, Preferences...) and some user-editable. My intention is, to make disabled menu-items possible. I am going to discus this on the mailing-list, when I have done some more tests.

2) Didn't know about this gnome-feature - interesting! I think this can be implementated by using gtk_accel_map_load()/gtk_accel_map_save().