Hi Andrew - unfortunately that adds a 5th menu item to the Power menu so this means even more button depressions or touch screen clicks in order to select it It also isn't quite the same as the 770 cover-on event as WiFi/BT isn't disabled, although the touch screen is disabled entirely so it's better than "Lock touch screen and Keys" in that respect.

It may be possible to make "Soft poweroff" the default option if the power button is depressed for a long time, but it isn't really a replacement for the cover-on event and the Power button (due to it's size and recessed position) is not a pleasant button to use for such a common function (if you get an N800 I hope you'll understand!)

My ideal would be to put the N800 into the 770 "cover-on" state by using one of the easily accessible front-facing hardware buttons - these are easy to press in a hurry whereas the top buttons are not (least of all the Power button). A menu from which to select a subsequent power state only delays the process so the cover-on state should be selected without any further screen interaction - eg. double-click the Home button and bam, everything is powered down and disabled until the device is resumed with another double-click Home (or perhaps Home + d-pad center).

Reading through this thread there's one question that remains:

Who is this person at Nokia who decided the 770's metal screen cover should no longer be provided for the N800? Is it the same person who decided the buttons on the N800 are large enough the way they are?

Now I get it:

TEXRAT DID IT!!!

It all fits together now! I knew there had to be a reason he won't tell what he has to do with the 770/N800!

And he's got "rat" in his nick an'all...

See comment 2 and after of the following bug:

https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=941

If you set display option "lock screen and keys" to off and add the "soft power off" menu as first item, you have something fairly close to N770 cover close.

guerby - see post #19 in this thread, which also has a few replies.

Also see https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=943 - to me, there are obvious problems that arise when assigning what for some will be a fairly common daily function to a button which is intentionally designed so that it is hard to press.