Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
by MegaDeKay on Monday October 14, 2019 @10:51AM
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The "Mouse" Systems Setting I have on screen on my up-to-date KDE right now has a slider for pointer speed with no numerical entry. There is only a small handful of other settings that quite useful (acceleration profile, invert scroll direction, and a couple other things). KDE has been working hard on usability lately.
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Yes the KDE Usability & Productivity initiative helped a lot making KDE suck less in this regard. A lot of configuration dialogs were improved, a lot of small irritating bugs were fixed and the default are more sane now. And because Nate Graham blog about all these changes every week, KDE also got a lot of new contributors.
Btw Plasma 5.17 will be released tomorrow, so all the improvements of the last 6 months will be available very soon.
Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
by morning_gelato on Monday October 14, 2019 @11:14AM
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KDE's pointer acceleration settings have never worked on X11 unfortunately.
...for you. For me they always worked, maybe not around the time of the libinput transition.
Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000
by morning_gelato on Sunday October 20, 2019 @07:57PM
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There were no mouse acceleration options for Plasma until release 5.13 which was released in 2018, which is well after the libinput transition. Essentially since the feature was added there's been an open bug report on it not working on X11.