That made me smile

Yep it's such an effort.

On a different note; I'll use the phone alot in the evenings when I slob out in front of the TV checking my emails and browsing the web. When something interesting comes on the TV I might watch that and forget the phone for a bit, when I go back to the phone I just want to continue where I was and not to have to unlock it all the time.
I also will watch Sky News using gstreamer, this alows me to use it more like a radio as gstreamer doesn't keep the screen lit, when I hear something interesting that I want to watch all I need to do is tap the screen and it will jump into life. If I want the screen lit all the time I will watch in the Media Player.
This is my personal preference.
I don't have any problem flicking the switch to un/lock the phone, I just don't want to do it all the time when I am using it. The risk is that on the odd occation it might be unlocked when in my pocket.

The problem the the OP has is that only the cog should activate desktop editting not a long press, I agree with him.