I've just pushed a very minor update to extras-devel which implements focus+scan for 5sec if you press the space button as mrsellout requested.

I've also worked out why the DBus and PythonQt plugins weren't working (my not using QDir very well) and will do some testing to see if I can get these up and running asap. Nothing in Extras-* for these, but they are sat in SVN if anyone wants to take a look.