Bug 100982

Summary: Ship the POINTINGSTICK_CONST_ACCEL hwdb instead of systemd
Product: Wayland Reporter: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Component: libinputAssignee: Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: jwrdegoede, peter.hutterer
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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i915 platform: i915 features:
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Bug Blocks: 91369    

Description Peter Hutterer 2017-05-10 04:41:19 UTC 
This property is a generic constant acceleration factor to be applied to the trackpoint's movement. The original idea was that this could be a generic value that can be used by other input stacks.

Realistically, the only way to *measure* the value is to check with something that moves the pointer on the screen, and that something is libinput. So now measuring the const accel depends on libinput's pointer acceleration mechanism, but that changes behaviour based on the value of const accel.

So shipping this in systemd is not good, we need to ship this in libinput instead.
Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2017-08-28 04:49:29 UTC 
As of commit 27ebea9a76fd227934b114e8369d442e6853924d we now ignore that setting completely, in favour of a range-measured approach.

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