When hitting Ctrl+X on a file, the icon is grayed out. Hitting ESC should abort the Cut & Paste operation (i.e. remove the file from the clipboard) and revert the icon color to normal. Same should apply to Copy & Paste, but here it's not so obvious because the file icon doesn't change when pressing Ctrl+C. I consider this expected behavior and I'm not sure if it was actually possible in prior versions of Dolphin/Konqueror, so I put it on the wish list. If it actually was, please mark it as a regression instead. Reproducible: Always Also see Bug 304614 and Bug 304615
Thanks for the bug report. (In reply to comment #0) > I consider this expected behavior and I'm not sure if it was actually > possible in prior versions of Dolphin/Konqueror, so I put it on the wish > list. If it actually was, please mark it as a regression instead. I don't think that it ever worked the way you're suggesting. To be honest, I don't really see why Esc should clear the clipboard - this is essentially what you're suggesting, because there is no such thing as a single Copy&Paste operation. It's two operations: "Copy to clipboard" and "Paste from clipboard". Imagine the following situation: You copy text in a text editor, then press Esc in Dolphin. Should the clipboard be cleared? I think not. One could try to write code that detects if the clipboard contents actually came from Dolphin when pressing Esc and clearing it in that case, but this would lead to a complete mess with (in my opinion) zero benefit to the user. Do you know any example of an application that clears the clipboard when pressing Esc?
You're right. This had to be carefully implemented. The point is just that it would be much more user friendly if I could abort a Cut & Paste operation. I did not only run once into a situation where I hit Ctrl+X on a file and then decided not to move it (either because I hit the shortcut accidentally or because I changed my mind) and it is just ugly to have that file marked grayed out until I close Dolphin. Due to Bug 304615 the icon does not even revert when I copy something else to the clipboard. Currently I don't know any Linux application that clears the clipboard on ESC press, but I know that the Windows Explorer, e.g., does. It does revert the icon and it does clear the clipboard, but of course only if the clipboard content really is a file reference. If it's just some text (e.g. a file *name*), ESC doesn't do anything.
Resetting assignee to default as per bug #305719
This can't really be implemented as written, and would break a huge amount of people's workflows. Has to be a WONTFIX, sorry.