Re: [Nautilus-list] Canceling a drag.

[Ben FrantzDale <bfrantzdale hmc edu>]

On 23 Mar 2001 12:51:19 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> "Blad, John Erling" wrote:
> > 
> > Is there any reason why it shouldn't be possible to drag an item off the
> > screen to cancel the drag and drop?
> 
> None that I can think of the way things work at the moment, other than
> the possibility for human error if the drop target is on or near the
> very edge of the screen.  But if you've got edge-flipping switched on,
> you should ideally be able to take advantage of that to drag things
> between windows on different virtual desktops, which would interfere
> with that approach.  (I've just tried it, though, and it looks like you
> can't-- Sawfish seems to turn off edge-flipping while you're dragging
> things, unless I'm missing something.)


I havn't tried it with edge flipping, but I've tried many times with
virtual desktops... alt+Fn (n=1,2,3,4) goes to the nth desktop. Alas,
Enlightenment never gets that command when I'm dragging. It would be
nice if it could, though.

--Ben