MySQL Bugs: #52309: Del key doesn't delete elements on the diagram

Bug #52309	Del key doesn't delete elements on the diagram
Submitted:	23 Mar 2010 16:45	Modified:	10 Nov 2011 12:50
Reporter:	Ivan Zlatev	Email Updates:
Status:	Won't fix	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Workbench: Modeling	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.2.16	OS:	Microsoft Windows
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any
Tags:	usability

Description:
I have just installed Workbench and when I try to use the Del key to delete a selected table from the diagram/model or a column from the "properties" view in the bottom it doesn't work. This is a usability problem for me.

How to repeat:
Try to delete a table from the model/diagram by selecting it and then pressing the Del key.

Thank you for the bug report.

- the defined keyboard shortcut for deleting objects from the canvas is Ctrl+Del (as listed in the main edit menu)
- to the second problem: there are no columns listed in the "property" pane in sidebar, so i assume, you meat the table editor. there are no shortcuts defined for deleting columns, right. as a workaround you can raise the context-menu on the selected column by pressing the context-menu-key (or Shift+F10 on non-windows keyboards)

We will not change the hot key that is assigned for this action by default, as this is the value used for years already.

Shortcuts like this are changeable by the user, as they are defined in xml files. The delete hot key is in WB folder\data\main_menu.xml.