Version: (using KDE 4.2.3) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages Sometimes users click on things (before releasing the mouse button), then realize that they did not want to click. This often happens to myself in menus. It would be nice if there were a known-safe area that the user could drag to, which would not drop the icon / object and not activate any action.
on dolphin, for example, you can right click and select "cancel".
That's an interesting workaround, though it seems like a bug to me, Finex. Should the user be able to switch clicking buttons in the middle of a click? I would suggest having right-click be the "safe area" (ie, right click disables left-click, and vice-versa) and disabling the ability to change a left click into a right click.
@Dotan: while your idex finger is keeping the left mouse button clicked, you can use another finger for press the right button. You don't have to switch clicking buttons.
Yes, Finex, that is exactly what I meant.
So, the feature to "undo" the drag_and_drop operation is available, in a different way you've proposed. What do you think about? Looking the problem for a different point of view, the solution could not be ok for situation like touch screens where you don't have the "right click" and there a "undo drag" area could be interesting... (P.S: wish moved to HIG)
> So, the feature to "undo" the drag_and_drop > operation is available, in a different way > you've proposed. What do you think about? Only for Dolphin. The rest of KDE does not have this. > Looking the problem for a different point of > view, the solution could not be ok for situation > like touch screens where you don't have the "right > click" and there a "undo drag" area could be > interesting... In those instances, a safe no-drop area would be helpful. It could be the clock, the KDE menu, the panel, one of the screen corners, or even a purpose-made plasmoid.
In many cases pressing Esc cancels the dnd operation, giving a similar solution. It would be nice if thi was always the case. Maybe it's worth a separate report? (I'm afraid that counldn't be forced universally either.)