[scribus-dev] Disaster DEL key

[Gregory Pittman]

On 09/05/2014 01:18 PM, JLuc wrote:
> Le 05/09/2014 17:58, JLuc a écrit :
>> It looks like rev 19294
>> http://scribus.net/websvn/comp.php?repname=Scribus&compare[]=/trunk/@19293&compare[]=/trunk/@19294
>>
>> introduced a sometime very painfull issue.
>>
>> When editing the content of a text frame, DEL deletes the frame itself.
>>
>> http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=12498 describe some specific
>> situations where it happens,
>> but it happens in other random cases, and depending on the machine it
>> can happen very often
>> in allmost all DEL text frame edit mode uses.
>>
>> ATM, solution for user seems to use scribus Preferences so as to not
>> bind DEL to OBJECT > DELETE
>> (one can suppress the binding, or bind CTRL+DEL or SHIFT+DEL instead)
> 
> Note that even when the binding is deleted in the preferences,
> when not in text edit mode, the DEL key deletes the frame as it should.
> So this binding seems to be ALSO hardcoded somewhere.
> 
>> So as to fix the code, it could be that the "Object delete" action
>> on a frame should first check that scribus is not in "Content edit" mode.
>>

I can't reproduce this on my machine (a Lenovo laptop) running Fedora
20, trying the various circumstances mentioned in the bug report.

Greg