The power button on the N800 appears to be of the "intelligent" type, i.e.: it knows about short and long presses.

At the moment the short press brings up a menu with different options, while the long press shuts down the device directly.

Here's the thing: I never got completely comfortable with the N800 not having the slider-sleep of the 770, and two presses to put NaB00 to sleep is just one too many. Also, I hardly ever shut down NaB00 (and Nokia keeps claiming it is an "always-on" device anyway), so the long keypress remains unused under my roof, and shutdown is an option in the power menu anyway. Besides, it's Linux, right? The One Thou Never Shalt Shut Down?

Would it not be possible to write a small applet for the power button so that the short keypress will perform a (preferrably user-selected; in a pinch an editable config file should be sufficient) action, while the long keypress brings up the power menu? That way I (and hopefully many many others) could set the short press to perform a "lock keys and screen" action immediately, or maybe "go offline", or -- who knows (I really don't know if that option would be possible) -- "start Bluetooth", to solve another pet peeve of mine.

It would turn the power button into a sort of one-macro button.

Any takers?