Oneiric: Delete key not working as key to delete file

[Brendan Donegan]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Very simply, since updating Oneiric to the latest packages the 'Delete' key doesn't move a file to Trash. I thought the key mappings might have been messed up, but the key works to delete text in any text fields so it can only be that Nautilus isn't translating the Delete scan code into the right action. Tried with a number of different files in different locations, so no special tricks.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: nautilus 1:3.0.2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0-1.2-generic 3.0.0-rc3
Uname: Linux 3.0-1-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jun 18 23:40:48 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB
 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-06-16 (2 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, upstream changed that keybinding to ctrl-delete as discussed on http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2011-March/msg00018.html that's not a bug

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

Seems like a bad solution to me. Sure they've gotten rid of a usability issue for those with slippy fingers (I have very slippy fingers and have never found this to be a problem, though not saying it isn't one), but they've created one even worse for those who got used to just pressing Delete (I would never have found this change if I didn't raise this bug)

Wasn't the original bug about it not warning? Why not just have Delete on it's own warn and Ctrl+Delete do it immediately? Anyway, I guess I'll have to engage with the Nautilus guys to get it fixed (or stop using Nautilus).
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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

read the upstream discussion to get the details, some people raised the same concerns that you there, in any case it's not a change coming from ubuntu so discussing it in launchpad is not the right place, the discussion should happen upstream rather