delete in right-click menu works differently than Del

[Andrewg-5409578]

The actions for menu options in the right-click context sensitive menu do
sometimes actually not match the same actions for the specified shortcut
key. For example when a point is right-clicked it brings up a menu that
allows you to delete (or press the del key.) When the menu option is
selected it deletes the entire path object as opposed to the one point, but
when the del key is pressed it deletes only the selected point. This
should be changed so that the menu option matches what the delete key does
(as this is more intuitive.)

Tested Under:
Inkscape0710181514.7z
Microsoft Windows XP Home with Service Pack 2
Dell Inspiron 9300, 2Ghz, 1Gb, 256mb GeForce Go 6800

[John Cliff (johncliff)]

Confirmed that the keyboard shortcut quoted doesnt do the same that the menu item does. In the node tool the menu acts like its in select mode, whilst del affects only selected nodes.

[John Cliff (johncliff)]

offending code is at line 986 of interface.cpp where it attaches the SP_VERB_EDIT_DELETE to the menu, which has the shortcut of del, which we've overloaded for the node tool.
not sure what the best way to approach fixing it is, as that top section of the menu is consistant in every other way across all the tools. Maybe rename it to delete object?

[Filip Sufitchi (fsufitch)]

Bump. Still present in 0.46 on Ubuntu Jaunty.

[Filip Sufitchi (fsufitch)]

Sorry, wrong clicks to report it happens not only in Windows, as reported in the bug.

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Confirmed on Ubuntu 10.04, Inkscape 0.47 and bzr rev. 9430.

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

Still the case in 0.91pre3 on LM17.

[mray (mrayyyy)]

I think this is not a bug.

The right click menu seems to be entirely connected to the object in any case. No entry in the right-click menu of a node (duplicate, cut, paste, ...) is applied to the node itself. There seems to be no node-right-click menu that creates the context.

I think this is rather a question in how far node editing should be refined in way that introduces actual context sensitive right-click menus for nodes.

Please create an issue on Gitlab https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues if there is need for such a request.

Closing because cannot be resolved/isn't a bug.

Closed by: https://gitlab.com/mray