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[Juliusz Kopczewski <41427@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My proposal is simple: just KILL this "feature".

Rationale: just count number of related bug reports. It is constantly
causing problems. It's very hard to google properly (especially with
keyboard that types one character per second). Just recently I
discovered that Gnome 3 doesn't actually offer any proper dialog to
disable this feature. I had to resort to gconf-editor instead.

It would make any sense, if turning slow keys on by holding Shift would
actually solve anything for anyone. The fact is however that I can't
imagine anyone to whom this would be useful. A less advanced user will
never in the world find out (otherwise than by accident) that holding
SHIFT toggles this function on/off. A person who needs slow keys is as a
matter of fact more likely to disable this feature by accident.

Please, just KILL it. It's been a TERRIBLE idea right from the start.
It's even worse than "Ctrl+Shift switches keyboard layout" under
Windows. Please, listen to your users and just KILL this shortcut. It's
incredibly annoying for the advanced users. Is virtually useless for
those who need slow keys.

If you think otherwise, please give my any explanation as to "what is it
actually for?". I can't seem to see any.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41427

Title:
  "slow keys" can turn on surreptitiously & cause confusion.

Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I was editing some huge photos with the gimp and it had a swapping
  fit; I pressed various keys, clicked various things, generally did
  what any user does when an application hangs for a while.

  For some reason, gnome's "slow keys" feature turned on during all this
  chaos---presumably because gnome thought the shift key was held down
  for N seconds, I don't know---and I was totally confused when my keys
  became, predictably, "slow."

  This seems like something that could happen to dapper users. Maybe
  there should be a

    [x] Activate "slow keys" by holding down the shift key.

  config toggle that is off by default, or something...

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