(In reply to Peter Hutterer from comment #16) > Adam: I'm really hesitant to put it into libinput because I'm not sure the > problem scope is well understood (at least by me) and what the actual point > of it is. So far it's been a "would be nice" but - at least these days :) - > we require a bit more information about use-cases and precise behaviours. >
At least from my corner of mouse usage, the problem is that X has no scroll distance multiplier like Windows does. Scrolling is slow. Some applications have their own mechanisms to deal with that, like Firefox's hidden about:config preferences, or extensions for Chrome. Or you can also try to hack something together with imwheel. If it's a touchpad, you can reduce the distance needed to send one "scroll event". This makes scrolling faster, but also less accurate and more error-prone. Obviously none of these solutions are very good. The future is going towards smooth scrolling, which is an incredible experience. But while it's buttery smooth, it still doesn't solve the problem of configurable scroll speed/distance. Configurable acceleration on the input device driver level would solve this nicely. You could have fast scrolling when you need it, and even still retain slow but precise scrolling when you don't. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/619403 Title: [KDE] no option for mouse wheel acceleration Status in X.Org X server: Unknown Status in xorg-server package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I am very used to mouse wheel acceleration but I haven't found any setting for it in the KDE settings. Also, the maximum possible value you can fill there (strangely it counts per lines) still is very slow. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: kdebase (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic-pae 2.6.32.15+drm33.5 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic-pae i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Aug 17 20:50:50 2010 InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE= LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: meta-kde To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/619403/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
