Comment 23 for bug 41427

It seems like this issue is being largely ignored, but I'm going to submit my $0.02 anyway.

I just wasted over an hour of my (valuable) workday trying to figure out why my keyboard would intermittently stop working. As it turns out, yes, I was activating "slow keys" by lazily holding down the shift key while I thought about something.

I disagree with some of the more vitriolic comments above. KDE's accessibility configuration panel has all the right options. You can disable the gestures, and never worry about the feature being activated again. You can set the gestures to prompt with a dialog, before activating the accessibility functions. Great.

However, the default configuration Kubuntu (gutsy) ships with is wrong though. It should be set so that gestures bring up a confirmation dialog, just like Windows does. Instead, it sneakily activates the "feature," leaving me thinking my keyboard just broke. It's hard to put into words how frustrating this has been, and leaves me sympathetic with the angrier voices above.

Now that I know, I won't get caught by it again. I've already deactivated the gestures, so no future worries for me. But as the history of this bug shows, dozens, if not hundreds of people are going to get burned in an incredibly frustrating way by Kubuntu's default configuration. PLEASE fix this to spare the frustration to so many of your appreciative users.

Thanks!