[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 101140] Expose an acceleration setting

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101140

Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
                 CC|                            |peter.hutterer at who-t.net
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #2 from Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> ---
Sorry, still closing this as WONTFIX, for a couple of reasons:

* the reason this still isn't better is ETIME on my side (and lack of hardware
that's affected by this). [1]
* Apple gets away with it because it's good enough - and this is the point,
isn't it? We have a lot of device-specific code, there's not point having
config options that everyone has to tweak individually when we can just make it
good enough on whole categories or model series at a time
* "acceleration" has very little meaning - what exact factor do you want to
expose?
* once we expose that factor, we're locked into the *algorithm*, because for
any change now we have to figure out how not to break that configuration

So right now, adding that config option has only downsides for the long-term
maintenance efforts.


[1] I pretty much only hear calls for "give me a config option" (which really
means: "a magic number that works for me on my hardware") , but apparently it's
not bad enough for anyone to spend time investigating the cause and finding a
proper solution. Most of the time when I provide branches to test, I get
crickets and tumbleweeds, so my motivation in general is a tad low to work on
this. And my motivation to expose a config option just to get abused whenever
it changes in the future is zero.

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