On Thu June 12 2008 16:39:59 Colin Guthrie wrote:
> James Kerr wrote:
> > In KDE3 you can disable the "press shift for 8 seconds" effect by turning
> > off "Activation Gestures". You can also reduce the "Acceptance delay" (if
> > slow keys are activated) to as little as 50msec. (kcontrol/Accessibility)
> > I've no idea about KDE4.
>
> Yeah it's all still there. That's how I "turned it off" as I previously
> mentioned.
>
> I still maintain that this is a braindead accessibility option,
> especially if you can turn it on with a return before you get a chance
> to read what the damn dialog says... doubly so if the dialog doesn't
> appear again and it just turns on and off without notification....
>
> Col

The option is useful for older/handicapped people that have trouble typing.
That said, having the confirmation dialog default to turning it on doesn't
seem like the best choice. Perhaps it would be worth filing a bug report
upstream to change the default to leaving it off?

Also, the dialog should keep reappearing every time. There is an option to
tell it not to display again, but from personal experience, that defaults to
off. Did it get turned on by accident?

--
Erin