[Patch] Documenting pointer acceleration

Philip Langdale plangdale at vmware.com
Thu Dec 17 13:54:17 PST 2009


Simon Thum wrote:
> Resending to include philip as xinput maintainer. xset doesn't have a 
> dedicated maintainer. Alan?
> 
> Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 03:13:30PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > > Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:24:20PM +0100, Simon Thum wrote:
> > > > > +has more detials. For X.org 1.7
> > > >             ^^^ typo     ^^ X.Org X Server 1.7
> > > I missed that one.   Our canonical writing style is the name of
> > > the X server binary has a lowercase o ("Xorg"), but the name of 
> > > the organization has an uppercase o after the period ("X.Org").
> > 
> > I was mostly after explicitly stating the "server" bit, I think 
> > user's are already confused enough by xf86, xfree86, XFree86, Xorg, 
> > X.Org, X11R7.foo :)
> I sure hope I don't add too much to that mess ;)
> 
> patches attached, I tried to also fix the wording that explains 
> acceleration itself this time. To me it sounded like "when the mouse 
> moves fast, accel will make it even faster". As much as I'd like to 
> play with a force-feedback mouse, that's simply not true.

Looks fine to me.

Thanks,

--phil 



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