Re: [Nautilus-list] Canceling a drag.

[John Sullivan <sullivan eazel com>]

on 3/22/01 2:02 AM, Jussi Hagman at jhagman infa abo fi wrote:

> Quoting Dylan Beattie (dylan zepler org):
>>>> You can drag with the right mouse button, so you couldn't use that for
>>>> cancelling all drags.
>>> 
>>> Ouch! True. How about "the other button"?
>>> 
>>> I really would like to see this done with the mouse, I sometimes press
>>> the right button (I usually do not drag with it) and then begin to
>>> wonder how was the canceling done and then begin to search for my
>>> keyboard and press the esc.
>> 
>> Forgive me if this has been proposed and rejected, but what's wrong with the
>> Windows approach where if you drop the files back into their original source
>> directory (ie. effectively moving them back to where they started) the drag
>> has no effect? 
> 
> If automatic layout of a folder is on then there will be a popup
> asking if it should be changed to manual layout. If a manual layout is
> selected then it will mess the icons up.

Note that you can already cancel a drag by dropping the items anywhere that
doesn't accept them -- such as the window title bar, or the menu bar/tool
bar/location bar, etc.

John