Re: Patch for Delete key behavior (for dia-0.96.1)

[Ondrej Mikle <ondrej mikle gmail com>]

Maciej Jaros wrote:
> Before you all start killing for this ;). You can change the behaviour 
> of Dia for yourself. It is quite simple though not documented anywhere 
> on Dia pages (it should!).
>
> Just run (under Windows):
> notepad %USERPROFILE%\.dia\menurc
>
> Change:
> ; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/display-actions/EditDelete" "Delete")
>
> To:
> (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/display-actions/EditDelete" "<Control>Delete")

Oh, so the leading semicolon is *not* part of the syntax (I thought gtk
simply skips the semicolon token by looking at the gtk code, but I guess
by token they mean the whole line). Thus my patch is unnecessary. This
should be mentioned in Dia FAQ, and also items 9 and 10 (changing the
accels in menu) don't work for me (neither Linux nor Windows).

> BTW I think that a nicer workaround would be to have a working Delete 
> key for removing any objects unless some text is active. If some text is 
> active (a cursor is visible) then use delete normally and Ctrl+Delete 
> for removing objects.

I could make such patch, it is not so hard; though lots of objects have
text in them, so most of the time you'd be using Ctrl+Del (since
clicking an object with text gives focus to the text immediately) and
Delete just a few times. Which is IMHO more confusing.


O. Mikle