(In reply to main.haarp from comment #21) > If acceleration depends on the toolkit/application, I fear it'll remain a > toy for select applications on modern distros only.
it's a thin line between adding these features for legacy applications and screwing things up for new applications that could do it better themselves. the worst mistake we made along these lines was kinetic scrolling in the synaptics driver, in addition to the various bugs it also made it impossible for clients to implement it properly themselves. something like wheel acceleration would be the same, it is transparent to the point that it makes smart acceleration in a client virtually impossible. (In reply to Claudius Ellsel from comment #22) > So if handling this in libinput causes problems, maybe there is a different > central place where to implement it. > How do Windows or MacOS handle this, as it is probably working without > issues there? Win/MacOS have less toolkits to worry about *and* they control almost the whole stack :) it'd be possible to add it as additional data in libinput but then you still require the compositor to pass the data on. Which requires a) updates to the software and b) a wayland protocol to send that data on which again requires a), so legacy applications are still out in the void. -- 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 : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
