16 Sep
2015
16 Sep
'15
10:09 p.m.
Hi Brynn,
to be honest, I think you are suspecting a change or bug in Inkscape 0.91 were none is.
Attached are two versions of your original drawing, one node-edited with Inkscape 0.48.5, one with Inkscape 0.91 (default new prefs for each test). The result is the same.
Ctrl+Del does not mean that all adjacent nodes are converted to cusp nodes with retracted handles - it means that the handles of adjacent nodes stay unchanged. On the other hand deleting a node in default shape-preserving mode will modify (adjust) the handles of the adjacent nodes to preserve the overall shape of the path (as good as possible).
Regards, V