If you have delete confirmations enabled, when the confirmation dialog opens, OK should NOT be the button with focus; e.g. Cancel should have the focus.

If browsing the directory structure with Gnome Commander (started with, or elevated to, root access), if you scroll to /etc then hit Enter to drill down into /etc (instead of using right-arrow), but you fat-finger the key and hit the Delete key (just to the right of Enter and below Insert) and Enter both at the 'same' time, you will wreck your install of Linux because Gnome Commander will immediately start deleting the /etc subdirectory.

If the Cancel button was the default focus of the Delete Confirmation Dialog, accidentally hitting the Delete key and Enter simultaneously should cause no harm.

I'm running 1.2.8.15 in fedora 16, for what it's worth.

Thanks!