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

[From: Faheem Pervez]

Hi,

Yes, MCE introduced a D-Bus method just for this:
http://maemo.org/api_refs/5.0/5.0-final/mce-dev/dbus-names_8h.html#ff2ef408024bb9a77d746be7446c1423

mafw-gst-renderer is the one calling this.

Best regards,
Faheem

On 6/2/10, Aniello Del Sorbo <anidel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>