(In reply to Peter Hutterer from comment #20) > (In reply to main.haarp from comment #17) > If the document is long enough > that scrolling acceleration is needed, the application (or toolkit) should > honor that and provide the appropriate methods - that may include > acceleration. > libinput sits too low to have the semantic awareness here. For example, > scrolling events during alt-tab switch between applications but libinput > doesn't know that, it merely forwards the hardware events.
You have a point there, libinput will always lack the semantic awareness and thus not provide an ideal solution. But I'll have to disagree. In an ideal world, you can offload acceleration to the app/toolkit. But since we have tons of legacy applications or developers unaware or unwilling to implement acceleration, they'll never receive the benefits. And even if they implement it, you get lots of duplicated efforts and functionality between apps. If acceleration depends on the toolkit/application, I fear it'll remain a toy for select applications on modern distros only. -- 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
