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[UIFe] Use Del (not CTRL+Del) to delete files by default

Bug #823221 reported by Iain Farrell
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This bug affects 37 people
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Unity
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Didier Roche-Tolomelli
Oneiric
Fix Released
Medium
Didier Roche-Tolomelli
ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned
Oneiric
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Before upgrading to Oneiric I used to be able to delete files simply by pressing delete. It looks like I now have to press ctrl + del to perform the same action. Was this a design decision made on purpose or have we inherited it from somewhere?

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Marco Biscaro (marcobiscaro2112) wrote :

Confirmed. I think this is a bug in nautilus.

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity:
status: New → Invalid
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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

I believe nautilus devs changed that on purpose maybe ubuntu should patch nautilus for the change

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: added: regression-release
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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

Gah, seems I can't target nautilus bugs to oneiric. In any case, we should probable consider reverting this. The new behaviour is pretty horrible

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Eshwar Andhavarapu (eshwar.andhavarapu) wrote :

why in their sane mind would they change this behaviour? and we're trying to get market share...

Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
summary: - Cannot delete files from desktop/ Nautilus by pressing delete anymore
+ [UIFe] Use Del (not CTRL+Del) to delete files by default
Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)
Changed in ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee: nobody → Didier Roche (didrocks)
Changed in ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee: nobody → Jeremy Bicha (jbicha)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus - 1:3.1.4-0ubuntu5

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nautilus (1:3.1.4-0ubuntu5) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/14_bring_del_instead_ctrl_del.patch:
    - use Del instead of Ctrl + Del for bringing files to the trash
      (LP: #823221)
 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:37:06 +0200

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote :

No change needed for documentation since this is fixed in nautilus. Thanks.

Changed in ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee: Jeremy Bicha (jbicha) → nobody
status: Triaged → Invalid
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