Comment 22 for bug 452149

I agree to all of that - the biggest issue is convincing everybody to switch the meaning, and even if that were easily possible, there are apps like GEdit which don't have any way to properly represent what they do.

I'm all in favor of removing the ISO No symbol and letting Gnome sort it out - it's the simplest fix that doesn't require both the apps and the online help to be rewritten, and it'll buy some time for the actual meaning of delete to be worked out. :)