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

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

On 1 June 2010 16:17, Faheem Pervez <trippin1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Indeed, it works with Vagalume as well, so I assumed it was the mafw stuff
handling it somehow.

Thanks :)

Aniello


> 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
> >
>



-- 
anidel
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