Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon
Sticky keys offer a simpler way to initiate multi-key shortcuts
involving modifiers. While handicapped users can certainly benefit, I
believe sticky keys can be very powerful and useful for any user. It's
common sense. It requires much less dexterity to enter three keys in
sequence than trying to press them down all at once.
However, the use of sticky keys can quickly become an annoyance when
modifier keys are left in their sticky state. This happens to me all the
time. I press down the modifier, but then perhaps I decide I don't need
it. But you have to tend to it or else your next key or mouse button
press is going to be combined with the active modifier. You deactive the
key by pressing it again and again (or hitting Esc).
What keeps biting me is the necessity to press the active modifier key
twice rather than just once.
You have to click the activate modifier twice to cycle through the
locked sticky state, then on to the inactive state. In short, there are
three states, instead of the desired two states:
- inactive
- active (transient)
- locked
I'm *constantly* banging on the keys to tare them (set them all
inactive). I almost never want to use the locked state and cycling
through it is a major annoyance. I'd like to be able to eliminate that
state as an option.
It should be noted that the sticky keys feature in KDE only has two
states: inactive and active. There is no locked state. I think Gnome
should at least accommodate that use case.
** Affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
offer two state toggle for sticky keys
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