2 sec delay after typing in Gnome 3. Who came up with that idea?

[Christian]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:05:44 -0500, Johnny Rosenberg  
<gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:

> Den 11 april 2012 23:47 skrev Christian <cdysthe at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've really like Gnome Shell and it has gradually become my default DE.  
>> But
>> on my laptop there's a really annoying change from Gnome 2: When you set
>> "Disable touchpad while typing" there's a 2 seconds(!) delay before you  
>> can
>> type again. In Gnome 2 I think it was 20 ms. Initially I was sure there  
>> had
>> to be a setting, maybe hidden in dconf or something, for this. But I  
>> can not
>> find it. Since the touchpad on my two laptops both are really touchy  
>> (pun
>> intended) so that even typing fast makes the cursor jump around, this
>> setting is important to me. Without it I can not work efficiently on the
>> laptops. The whole reason for this setting was in the first place that  
>> most
>> laptops with touchpads have this problem.
>>
>> After a lot of digging around I've found that this 2 seconds delay  
>> seems to
>> be hardcoded into Gnome 3/Gnome Shell. Only through a recompile will I  
>> be
>> able to set this to a reasonable value it looks like. But I have found a
>> workaround using syndaemon which I load on login with appropriate  
>> values.
>> This works well as far as the delay goes, but it seems like syndaemon  
>> makes
>> other settings for the touchpad less accurate and hard to set. My  
>> question
>> is if anyone can think of another solution to this problem, or happen to
>> know if there after all is some other way to set this delay in Gnome  
>> 3/Gnome
>> Shell that I haven't been able to find.
>>
>> And of course, I would like to know who came up with the great idea to
>> change this default in Gnome 3! My theory is that it's a typo, it should
>> have been 20 ms, but ended up being 2 seconds! :)
>>
>> --
>> //Christian
>
> File a bug report, maybe?

Not sure it's a bug though. I will look into doing that anyway :)
>
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> Kind regards
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ
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//Christian