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"
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.
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?
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?