It seems like this issue is being largely ignored, but I'm going to
submit my $0.02 anyway.

I just wasted over an hour of my (valuable) workday trying to figure out
why my keyboard would intermittently stop working.  As it turns out,
yes, I was activating "slow keys" by lazily holding down the shift key
while I thought about something.

I disagree with some of the more vitriolic comments above.  KDE's
accessibility configuration panel has all the right options.  You can
disable the gestures, and never worry about the feature being activated
again.  You can set the gestures to prompt with a dialog, before
activating the accessibility functions.  Great.

However, the default configuration Kubuntu (gutsy) ships with is wrong
though.  It should be set so that gestures bring up a confirmation
dialog, just like Windows does.  Instead, it sneakily activates the
"feature," leaving me thinking my keyboard just broke.  It's hard to put
into words how frustrating this has been, and leaves me sympathetic with
the angrier voices above.

Now that I know, I won't get caught by it again.  I've already
deactivated the gestures, so no future worries for me.  But as the
history of this bug shows, dozens, if not hundreds of people are going
to get burned in an incredibly frustrating way by Kubuntu's default
configuration.  PLEASE fix this to spare the frustration to so many of
your appreciative users.

Thanks!

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"slow keys" can turn on surreptitiously & cause confusion.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41427
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