Bug 393663

Summary:	Gnome3 upgrade guide: include information about delete hotkeys changes
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	389719
Attachments:	patch to support both Delete and Ctrl+Delete patch to support both Delete and Ctrl+Delete

Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2011-12-08 19:49:22 UTC

Due upstream:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647048

People will now need to press Ctrl+Supr instead of simply Supr. As this is not obvious at all, we should either revert this decision or, at least, document this change a bit like:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME#Changing_hotkeys

Thanks

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2011-12-09 00:23:40 UTC

steev found the commits:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=cce40272e35b20b4aaf5f93109a05b7bb89704d5
http://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=c6279ac229545d7f64b64212383df2753482e233

Comment 2 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-12-09 00:38:54 UTC

Created attachment 295235 [details, diff]
patch to support both Delete and Ctrl+Delete

This has been annoying me forever too. In every other file manager on the planet the Delete key does exactly what it says, *delete* :/

Normally, I do not like to change upstream behavior defaults. However, in this particular case I am quite certain that upstream is wrong, that the new upstream behavior will confuse users with no benefit, and will only lead people to pressing Shift+Delete or Ctrl+Alt+Delete by accident.

The attached patch should restore the Delete shortcut, but Ctrl+Delete will continue to work. The only question is whether to apply the patch unconditionally or if USE=-vanilla.

Ack/nack?

Comment 3 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-12-09 00:52:17 UTC

Created attachment 295237 [details, diff]
patch to support both Delete and Ctrl+Delete

Typo.

Comment 4 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-12-15 02:33:39 UTC

Committed. (We are not the only ones doing it - Ubuntu also reverted the Ctrl+Delete shortcut.)

>*nautilus-3.2.1-r1 (15 Dec 2011)
> 
>  15 Dec 2011; Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org>
>  +nautilus-3.2.1-r1.ebuild,
>  +files/nautilus-3.2.1-autostart-only-show-in.patch,
>  +files/nautilus-3.2.1-delete.patch,
>  +files/nautilus-3.2.1-key-press-forwarding.patch:
>  Restore the Delete keyboard shortcut for deleting files (bug #393663, thanks
>  to Pacho for reporting). Do not handle keyboard shortcuts in NautilusWindow
>  if a text entry is focused (prevents files from getting deleted when pressing
>  Delete in search entry). Only autostart in GNOME and Unity (bug #394379,
>  thanks to Marc Schiffbauer for reporting).