After a 10 hour day sometimes the last two hours are in a car. When I get home I tend to grab up the N900, another cell phone, a brief case, maybe one of the wifes coffee cups I walked to the car with the other day, and a note pad. The keys and case are in my hands and everything else is in a pocket ad hoc like.

Going out in the morning it is easy to remember to activate the slide lock before I even leave my desk. When getting out of the car though I usually have other things on my mind.

Rather than teach old dogs new tricks the thought here is to play on the N900's strength and find this parameter and eliminate "long press" from the desktops behaviors.

Long press serves no purpose other than to activate the edit mode by bypassing the need for the second press on the gear pop tart. It also interrupts the auto lock timers routine.

My perfect case would be to move the desktop settings to a status bar app and eliminate activation from the screen altogether. Then a long press could be used for something else like activating a favorite app, or the phone, or nothing at all...