[haiku-development] Re: Mouse <-> touchpad settings woes

  • From: Nicholas Otley <nicholasotley@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:09:00 +0000

OSX has separate preference panels for mouse and touchpad in 10.6, 10.5 and 
IIRC also in 10.4 too.

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Kind regards,
Nik

On 16 Nov 2009, at 08:04, Stephan Assmus wrote:

> 
> On 2009-11-15 at 23:01:27 [+0100], Humdinger <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
>> -- Stephan Assmus, on Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:50:51 +0100:
>>> Don't know if you remember, but I mentioned "per input device settings" 
>>> before. I think it's even on the Future Haiku Features list. :-)
>> 
>> Oh, right. I didn't make the connection at first, because I was fixated 
>> on the user perspective of the preference panel... :)
>> 
>>> All that is certainly something I would want to work on in the next 
>>> time, 
>>> but I have not started yet and may need to pay attention to other stuff 
>>> in 
>>> the immediate future. If someone is interested and wants to discuss 
>>> implementation, I would be glad to share ideas. ;-)
>> 
>> That will be another unique Haiku feature, right? Or what does Win7 and 
>> OSX?
> 
> Could be. It seems Windows does take the mouse resolution into account, so 
> the same acceleration and speed settings feel the same for any mouse. That 
> helps of course. Some mice come with custom preflets, so in a way, that's 
> like having per device settings. With OSX I don't know. When I first used 
> it, I found the mouse configuration horrible. I was convinced it would 
> prevent me from using the OS, along with the horrible text rendering. It 
> bothered my girlfriend a lot, too, it seemed like the mouse settings simply 
> could not be tweaked to feel right. Mostly, because there is only one 
> slider. She would constantly overshoot targets and then the pointer 
> wouldn't move at all when you tried to move it carefully. There are a few 
> tools which you can download, but most seemed like they would only add a 
> constant factor to the acceleration, and not actually help at all. Somehow 
> we have achieved an "Ok" setting now. Or maybe an OS update solved the 
> problem silently. In any case, it doesn't seem like you can configure per 
> device, unless it comes with it's own driver and preflet.
> 
> Best regards,
> -Stephan
> 


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