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

[Christian]

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