Comment 15 for bug 342567

I agree, it would be good to have the libnotify popup absolutely removed for eternity. I filed a bug report for that. It's a slightly different request (a new feature, not so modest a change), but it would permanently fix this so it makes some sense to tie it to this one.

I think we should avoid making a tremendous change downstream, like tearing out the libnotify popup altogether, during feature freeze and all that. It could greatly upset somebody (or some spin-off distro) who for some reason still likes notification-daemon or whose use case we didn't think of in the short time up to release. For the time being, we may as well preserve the existing functionality just in case and touch up usability with the next release :)

Having said that, patching this to remove the libnotify stuff would be fairly quick.

Unfortunately I'm at the wrong computer to create a patch, but...
In gsd-a11y-keyboard-manager.c, for stickykeys look at line 799: if (! ax_stickykeys_warning_post_bubble (manager, enabled)) {
For slowkeys look at line 652: if (! ax_slowkeys_warning_post_bubble (manager, enabled)) {

The solution should be evident :) (Remove the if blocks and any mention of ax_*_warning_post_bubble. Look for #ifdef HAVE_LIBNOTIFY and delete everything in those blocks).