Notices

Is it possible to capture the pressing of the 'space' key while on the desktop view? Currently when you start typing the phone starts searching through the contacts but hitting 'space' does nothing.

This could be used to launch an application. A dream app would be a kind of quick search / applauncher.

Use cases as follows:

* while on desktop - hit space
* text box opens to the bottom of the screen
* start typing and the app starts filtering your installed applications whose name matches the string you are typing

* launch an app from the list
OR
* hit 'search' (button somewhere - local search or launch Google etc.)
OR
* execute a script / command

User definable keywords would be nice for the searches and triggered functions. The TouchSearch widget has a nice UI - almost perfect for this case.

So - anyone have any idea if this is possible? The capturing of the space key on the, local searching and so on?

See here: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?p=482523

That's pretty neat. Too bad I'm more of a design type of guy so most of the hacking goes way over my head. But it is doable then.

For the idea I presented it would be enough to support 'space' and 'arrow+space' for launching a custom app or phone function. This could be set from the control panel. The actual application (local/web search, filtering app launcher etc.) could be a separate application.

Nice to see you've already done something similar though