Hmm, doesn't seem all that fast from this side, involves a lot of research and reading without all that much coding going into it to get stuff working. Maybe that's just me
As for "one of the better developers", I started C++ less that 2 months ago... Am still busy learning the ropes but this gives me a whole bunch of cool projects to do which all teach me useful stuff RE C++ development. I must admit though, there is something about the N900 that makes me wish I could keep it forever <3

I wouldn't worry too much about that, besides since I assume you're gonna be helping me bug test it you'll be doing more than enough

Now, for an update:
I can now monitor the top_application calls, lock the phone when they get picked up AND load the correct DBus service paths from the service files (despite the fact that they aren't all named correctly ). I have also started work on using DBus to monitor ALL application launches which should make it considerably softer on battery usage.
However, there will now be a limitation on what the app can lock, most prominently that it will ONLY lock applications which have a .desktop file. I figure this isn't such a big deal since most console apps are capable of executing in under 2.5 seconds (50% of the original scan interval) which could make them undetectable, and xterm already has a desktop file.
Next, I am not sure if an application that has absolutely NO dbus calls in it will trigger this check (will do a bit of testing to confirm that) but I think it is safe to assume that most developers will have made use of at least the notification dbus calls, so that shouldn't be a massive problem.

And once that is all done, public alpha (with any luck, by this afternoon)


UPDATE:
Well, still spending my time trying to figure out why the hell adding a new instance of my ApplicationDescription class to a QList causes all the previous entries in the list to become equal to the new item... Even when all the pointers are different *bashes head into desk*.
As such, I may end up rewriting all the settings handling code to work purely off of SQLite rather than loading anything into memory (may work better anyway in some cases).