Hi dantonic,

I'm the developer of TouchSearch and would be very interested in your results with just it enabled.

I designed it to be extremely light on the battery. In fact, that was my initial priority. It shouldn't use any battery whatsoever when you aren't directly interacting with it.

If you do find that it inhibits battery-life in any way, please file a bug in the maemo.org bugzilla under component TouchSearch and I will get on it right away.