[maemo-developers] Zoom Keys when screen's locked

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

I commented on the bug issue: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8011

I did more tests and it actually works much better than before and than I
thought :)

If Media Player is running, it'll always gets the rockers' events (even with
the screen locked and dimmed! I recall you had to activate the screen before
to change the volume).
If the Media Player is running and the foremost application is handling the
events for his own purposes, the Media Player still gets the events as
expected.

However if Media Player is not running, or music is stopped, than the
foremost application gets to handle the events and zoom in/put or whatever
it was programmed to do with them.

I assume this is a feature (as there'd be no way to know if that is a music
application or not) and the application is free to do whatever it wants.

I will change Xournal and make sure it won't zoom in/out if it gets those
events and the screen is locked.
I don't think any user would want to zoom in/out when the screen is locked
:)

Thanks for listening!

Aniello

On 1 June 2010 15:52, Aniello Del Sorbo <anidel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> earlier versions of N900 allowed the volume to be changed when the screen
> was locked.
> This nice behaviour was disabled later and re-enabled in the latest
> firmware incarnation.
>
> However, this now behaves differently.
> If an application that handles the zoom keys is the foremost application
> before locking the screen,
> then the zoom events goes to that application even though you can't see it.
>
> For example Xournal and Microb will both zoom in/out if you press the +/-
> keys when the screen is locked
> and nothing appears on the screen (of course) .
>
> Before filing the bug, I would like to check if the apps should RELEASE the
> keys handling someone when the screen is locked or if this is a bug in the
> way the lock screen handles them?
>
> --
> anidel
>



-- 
anidel
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