That doesn't make it a good decision. The primary audience of mouse acceleration as a feature is gamers, and the overwhelming majority consistently refer to it as Mouse Acceleration. I've been running and attending gaming events for over 20 years, and I never hear them refer to it as anything but Mouse Acceleration.
Example google query shows 4,500,000 results : https://www.google.com/search?q=mouse+acceleration+gaming This guide for competitive gaming settings literally has the first recommendation of disabling Mouse Acceleration: https://alexskra.com/blog/competitive-gaming-optimal-settings/ Here's another article that explains that the Windows term used refers to Mouse Acceleration, and the impact of it: https://eliteownage.com/mouseguide.html And another: https://www.billelafros.com/how-to-turn-off-mouse- acceleration-and-why-does-it-matter-for-esports/ Seriously there is an effectively inexhaustible source of information reliably demonstrating that "Mouse Acceleration" is not only the functional term that is appropriate, but it is the one that is used with effectively total dominance in the common vernacular. The justification (made by you, or other people) that Windows/macOS call it something completely pointless can be countered easily with "if they jumped off a bridge, would you?" style of rebuttal. I genuinely see zero actual reason to call it anything but "Mouse Acceleration", as it literally changes how the mouse pointer _accelerates_. Putting aside the aforementioned points made about actual verbiage used in the affected user base (gamers). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1739635 Title: Can we please get Mouse Acceleration as a GUI control? Status in gnome-control-center: Unknown Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Bug description: Can we please get a GUI control for adjusting and turning off Mouse Acceleration? This is really important for gaming. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-21.24-generic 4.13.13 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-21-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.6 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Thu Dec 21 08:54:59 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-20 (884 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422) SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-control-center/+bug/1739635/+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
