STEPS TO REPRODUCE Hold a key, intentionally or not, at the password's input field. OBSERVED RESULT It will repeat the key being held. EXPECTED RESULT It shouldn't repeat keys since there's no practical use in the password's input field. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0 Qt Version: 6.9.2 Kernel Version: 6.16.7-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-11300H @ 3.10GHz Memory: 9 GB of RAM (8.1 GB usable) Graphics Processor 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Graphics Processor 2: Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics Manufacturer: LENOVO Product Name: 82MG System Version: IdeaPad Gaming 3 15IHU6 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Using the existing option in the keyboard layout settings that deactivates it for all use cases is not an ideal solution. I guess this should also benefit some people with hand disabilities.
You're probably right that there's no particular use case for key repeat in a text field where you need to precisely enter the correct thing. But on the other hand, disabling it would reduce consistency and actually require quite a lot of code, as there's no built-in feature to override key repeat in a specific text field. So we'd have to roll our own. Since this text field is security-sensitive, I think using the standard one is safer, which means saying no to this idea, sorry.