Dashboard - prevent editing

How do I prevent a DashboardView from entering edit mode when holding down an Item...

Currently I have:

dashboard.addEventListener('edit', function() {
    dashboard.stopEditing();
});

which stops the edit mode immediately when it starts, but it has 2 side effects: - it results in a click (ie. the action assigned to clicking the dashboard item gets executed - it renders the icon with a white overlay that you can't get rid of (i guess that's the press down state)

Any ideas?