Bug 198161

Summary: Config-Option to turn of CAPS-Lock
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: m.wege
Component: kcm_keyboardAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: cberzan
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Unspecified   
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Description m.wege 2009-06-28 14:20:59 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.90)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

It would be good to have an option to turn of CAPS Lock, the most annoying key on the keyboard. I know some people need it, that is why I suggest it as an option. Since I believe the people who need it are not many I suggest to handle it as follows:
- CAPS Lock remains activated
- As soon as someone presses it, KDE monitors the following input. If the CAPS Lock is off and the users starts to delete the text he just wrote, KDE asks:
"Seems you hit CAPS-Lock accidently. Do you need it? Otherwise it can be deactived permanently. Klick "Deactivate" or "Continue"
Comment 1 Constantin Berzan 2009-06-28 15:57:28 UTC 
For various reasons, having something like that in KDE would be rather cumbersome.  There are other ways of disabling / enabling caps lock, see for example http://www.ubuntugeek.com/disable-and-enable-caps-lock-in-ubuntu.html .  Let us know if that accomplishes what you want.
Comment 2 m.wege 2009-06-28 19:18:51 UTC 
I have already found ways how to do it, that is not the point. It is that those things get lost during updates or when I install KDE one someone elses computer, I alsways need to look it up again. I know about many people suffering this caps lock problem and telling people who are not used the comand line those things via phone is a pain. It would be much easier to have at least a configuration option, not even disabeling caps lock by default. I know there are blind people needing.
What makes it cumbersome?
Comment 3 Constantin Berzan 2009-06-28 19:30:49 UTC 
I am by no means an expert in this area, but I would expect monitoring user input in the way you suggested would be slow, would work well for only a subset of users, and would introduce security problems.  An option to disable caps lock (without monitoring anything, just a checkbox in systemsettings) would be possible I guess, but I think that should be handled at the distribution level.

Did you find a way to disable caps lock from within a KDE tool, or a distribution tool?