According to Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>:
> I'm confused. When I middle-click on an object, I get the
> menu for the currently-selected object, NOT the object I'm pointing
> to. However, when I middle-click when the Ethernet is selected, I
> must point at a handle in order to delete it.
>
> Should the object menu apply to the pointed-to object or the selected object?
IMHO yes. I have already filed a bug report:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55072
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