[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Question about intercepting the HOME button

[From: Tapani Pälli]

ext Ramiro Estrugo wrote:
> Hi maemo hackers.
>
> I want to handle HOME button event and CONSUME it.
>
> I tried hacking HildonAppView to not register a gtk key event snooper
> to handle the HOME key (which seems to be an alias for GDK_F5)
>
> This didnt work.  The app no longer handles the HOME key event but
> some other process does.
>

HOME-key is special. HOME button should always take you to home whatever
the situation is (even if input is being grabbed by a menu). Therefore
this key is handled in lower levels and Gtk application cannot do things
with it.

> It seems the maemo_af_desktop process is catching this event somewhere
> else and doing its thing.
>
> So my question is where is the code in maemo_af_desktop that catches
> the GDK_F5 and turns into some kind of message so that I can comment
> it out ?
>
> thanks.
>
> -re
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// Tapani