How to delete a node quickly in tablet mode of desktop version (Windows)?

[Digit89]

I'm used to using Designer on my iPad, and there I have a nice recycle bin button in the lower left corner that works for every selected object, especially for nodes. Now I'm trying the desktop version V2.2 on Windows, but I use my laptop in tablet mode with a stylus. When I select the node tool, I am missing a delete button. There is no general recycle bin, and the node tool context menu also has no option for deletion of a node.

The only way I found is via the menu Edit - Delete which is quite cumbersome. Did I overlook the delete option?

[Old Bruce]

5 minutes ago, Digit89 said:

The only way I found is via the menu Edit - Delete which is quite cumbersome. Did I overlook the delete option?

There should be a Trash Can icon on the bottom of the Layers panel. I just use my keyboard's delete key.

[thomaso]

22 minutes ago, Digit89 said:

the node tool context menu also has no option for deletion of a node

With the node(s) selected just press the delete key on your keyboard (or choose menu Edit > Delete).

 

[Digit89]

1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

There should be a Trash Can icon on the bottom of the Layers panel. I just use my keyboard's delete key.

Thank you, @Old Bruce. This is the option to delete an object or a layer. That works well! However, I want to delete a node of a curve.

[Digit89]

52 minutes ago, thomaso said:

With the node(s) selected just press the delete key on your keyboard (or choose menu Edit > Delete).

 

Thank you @thomaso. Yes, I know the menu option. And when I work on my laptop in tablet mode, the keyboard is flipped on the back and hence not available.

I've attached a screenshot of my iPad. The nice recycle bin in the lower left corner is what I'm looking for. On the desktop (second screenshot) there is the context menu when a node is selected, but it's lacking a delete option. From my perspective this is the most basic operation and should be there.

 

 

 

 

[Old Bruce]

24 minutes ago, Digit89 said:

Thank you, @Old Bruce. This is the option to delete an object or a layer. That works well! However, I want to delete a node of a curve.

Arghh, too early here on the Left Wet Coast. I read that and instantly forgot the "node" part, just remembered the bit about delete. Sorry. 

For me I tend to just use the delete keys on my keyboard, I am unfamiliar with the iPad versions. Old School fellow here, keyboards all the way.

[thomaso]

27 minutes ago, Digit89 said:

On the desktop (second screenshot) there is the context menu when a node is selected, but it's lacking a delete option. From my perspective this is the most basic operation and should be there.

Apparently, the presence of a keyboard is assumed on a desktop. How about the main menu and its 'Delete' command?

I guess a 'trash' button wouldn't be correct in the Context Toolbar since a "delete" option is not context related but available at any time / for any selection, with different results depending on the current tool.

So maybe you would need it in the Tools panel (as on the iPad), or in the Toolbar instead, where several users already demanded other buttons like "copy", "save" or "print" as their fundamental needs in a Feature Request thread some years ago.

Apart from that, in particular for "tablet mode" on a desktop it maybe more useful to request an option to install the iPad version on a desktop. If I understand right it is possible in macOS for certain conditions. https://appleinsider.com/inside/macos-monterey/tips/how-to-run-ios-apps-on-macos-monterey-in-2022

[Digit89]

23 minutes ago, thomaso said:

...

I guess a 'trash' button wouldn't be correct in the Context Toolbar since a "delete" option is not context related but available at any time / for any selection, with different results depending on the current tool.

So maybe you would need it in the Tools panel (as on the iPad), or in the Toolbar instead, where several users already demanded other buttons like "copy", "save" or "print" as their fundamental needs in a Feature Request thread some years ago.

...

Well, there was a nice delete button in the context menu for a selected node in V1 on the iPad (I didn't use desktop V1). They removed it in V2. I have no idea why...

[thomaso]

4 minutes ago, Digit89 said:

Well, there was a nice delete button in the context menu for a selected node in V1 on the iPad (I didn't use desktop V1). They removed it in V2. I have no idea why...

Do you mean V1 desktop – or iPad? On V1 there is no delete button in the Context Toolbar, – on the iPad there is one in the Tools, as shown in your 1st screenshot.

[Digit89]

17 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Do you mean V1 desktop – or iPad? On V1 there is no delete button in the Context Toolbar, – on the iPad there is one in the Tools, as shown in your 1st screenshot.

As said, I mean iPad. 

See my V1 iPad screenshot below. There is the general delete button in the lower left corner with the red circle which works for any selected object including nodes. And there is the delete button in the context toolbar for a selected node (below in the middle, circled in green). 

In V2 iPad the red button is still there, the green one is missing unfortunately. In V2 desktop, there‘s neither the green one nor the red one.

[walt.farrell]

If you switch to the Node Tool, and you're using V2, you should find a Delete Node option in the right-click context menu for the Node.

[Digit89]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

If you switch to the Node Tool, and you're using V2, you should find a Delete Node option in the right-click context menu for the Node.

 

Thank you, @walt.farrell, you're right. However, so far I couldn't get my stylus to perform a right click. It does in other apps, but not in Designer. And of course, in tablet mode I don't use a mouse.

However, in the iPad V2 I meanwhile found the delete button in the context bar. The context bar is scrollable and the delete button is on the far right end. On my iPad, I don't see it without scrolling. So I wonder, why it is not there in desktop V2.

[walt.farrell]

5 minutes ago, Digit89 said:

So I wonder, why it is not there in desktop V2.

Simply because the desktop and iPad apps use a very different user interface.

You should also find that the Edit menu has a Delete action, which will delete the selected Node while you have the Node tool active.