On 28/06/17 13:53, Martin Castillo wrote: > Package: gdm3 > Version: 3.14.1-7 > Severity: minor > > Dear Maintainer, > > the 'slow keys' feature gives someone, who is not aware of it, the impression, > that the keyboard is broken or that there is a software bug, either in the > keyboard driver or the display manager. > > Normally this is only enabled, when the user, that wants to use it, enables it > himself. But on public systems, where multiple people use the same system > (like > in a university), the following users will either think that the keyboard does > not work, or if they find out, that long pressing works, that some software > has > a problem. > > I'd suggest, that you show a text noting that 'slow keys' is enabled, and > optionally, how to turn it off. It would be like a note saying that caps lock > is enabled. > > For a long time one of the university computers had this 'problem' that no > one, > not even > the admins, knew how to fix. Today, I only found out by chance, that this was > not a bug, but a feature.
Sounds like a good idea. It'd be good if you can report this upstream at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gdm Thanks, Emilio