# Del shortkey for Delete downstream Pipeline
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/del-shortkey-for-delete-downstream-pipeline/17689
**Category:** Feature Requests
**Created:** [August 18, 2026, 9:03am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/del-shortkey-for-delete-downstream-pipeline/17689 "2026-08-18T09:03:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@otaolafr](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/otaolafr)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2026, 9:03am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/del-shortkey-for-delete-downstream-pipeline/17689/1 "2026-08-18T09:03:00Z")
currently the Del shortkey is not assigned to anything, a lot of us were quite happy with the addition of Delete downstream Pipeline, it would be nice to have as default shortkey for it the Del key. at least personally i do not use anymore the Delete and always use Delete downstream Pipeline directly.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2026, 9:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/del-shortkey-for-delete-downstream-pipeline/17689/2 "2026-08-18T09:05:48Z")
It looks like `Del` is already deleting filters without being listed as a proper shortcut, so this should be fixed.
Setting it to Delete Downstream Pipeline is fine and retrocompatible imo.
Wdyt @cory.quammen ?
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### Author:  [@otaolafr](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/otaolafr)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2026, 9:25am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/del-shortkey-for-delete-downstream-pipeline/17689/3 "2026-08-18T09:25:56Z")
yeah, thats why i was ‘surprised’ that when i went to configure it (it was not showing as used for Delete). dummy feature request that finish to find a small dummy bug ahaha
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 3:40pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/del-shortkey-for-delete-downstream-pipeline/17689/4 "2026-08-19T15:40:11Z")
> [@mwestphal](#):
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> Setting it to Delete Downstream Pipeline is fine and retrocompatible imo.
It’s not, though. Currently if you press Del when a source has a downstream consumer in the Pipeline Browser nothing happens. This change would delete the source and all downstream filters. In any case, I like the idea of having a default shortcut for Delete Downstream Pipeline. Maybe Ctrl+Del?
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### Author:  [@otaolafr](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/otaolafr)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 3:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/del-shortkey-for-delete-downstream-pipeline/17689/5 "2026-08-19T15:45:57Z")
> [@cory.quammen](#):
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> Currently if you press Del when a source has a downstream consumer in the Pipeline Browser nothing happens
well currently it was not declared on the shorkeys. I dont know in other domais, but at least since delete downstream pipeline, i literally fully stoped using single delete. I remember when @Francois_Mazen pressented in OpenFOAM french workshop this new feature, there was so much good reaction to it, of people saying yeah it was so annoying doing delete and nothing happening.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/del-shortkey-for-delete-downstream-pipeline/17689/6 "2026-08-19T15:47:28Z")
only if you consider that not doing something is an inteded behavior.
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 3:59pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/del-shortkey-for-delete-downstream-pipeline/17689/7 "2026-08-19T15:59:19Z")
That’s the behavior, intended or not 🙂
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 4:55pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/del-shortkey-for-delete-downstream-pipeline/17689/8 "2026-08-19T16:55:10Z")
I would be very slow tying the delete key to multi filter deletes without a “are you sure?” type of prompt. I cuss out iPhone’s ability to call favorites by mistake maybe once a week.
I DO like the idea of a two key shortcut, such as Ctrl+Del. Obviously, if you click that combination, you knew what you were doing.
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### Author:  [@otaolafr](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/otaolafr)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/del-shortkey-for-delete-downstream-pipeline/17689/9 "2026-08-19T16:56:49Z")
And put a prompt of are you sure and check box don’t aks again unchecked?
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 5:03pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/del-shortkey-for-delete-downstream-pipeline/17689/10 "2026-08-19T17:03:45Z")
I’d be good with that.
However, I still like Cory’s idea better of Ctrl+Del. Maybe put a tooltip on Del in case someone clicks it, to show the correct command is Ctrl+Del?
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### Author:  [@otaolafr](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/otaolafr)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 5:32pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/del-shortkey-for-delete-downstream-pipeline/17689/11 "2026-08-19T17:32:32Z")
Personally I find delete as simply deprecated, and left the behavior for with downstream and with a prompt. I can always configure for my personal use, but I really don’t see anymore the use of it when the option to downstream is there, the number of times I hit deleted by error in paraview is minimal and furthermore, one is rarely working on high levels of the tree so if error occurs one would delete 3 levels? Any case it is just an opinion and personal preference. (also notice that I have problems of unwilling hitting shortcuts in other situations but the del button is so far appart on the keyboard that this never happened to me. But it does happen a lot to go and hit it intentionally and nothing happens and then realize the filter I want to delete has children filters the