https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470187
Bug ID: 470187
Summary: Clarify wording of mouse/touchpad acceleration
settings
Classification: Applications
Product: systemsettings
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Other
Status: REPORTED
Severity: minor
Priority: NOR
Component: kcm_mouse
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: tempqd...@mailinator.com
CC: natalie_clar...@yahoo.de
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
The wording of "flat" and "adaptive" (and "acceleration profile" itself) seems
unclear and perhaps overly technical.
Plus, the word "adaptive" nowadays sounds more like it will learn from how you
use the mouse and adapt itself over time, in a machine-learning sense. Or, it
sounds like perhaps it will adapt based on the context your pointer is in, i.e.
different applications will have different pointer behavior. What it really
means is that there is simply acceleration.
Calling it a "profile" and having the radio buttons with two options below the
pointer speed bar also makes it seem like the choice will determine how the
speed bar behaves. To me, "adaptive profile" seems like the bar will set how
adaptive the acceleration is (which is not how it works, I don't think),
especially in the touchpad settings where the bar is labeled "pointer
acceleration" (should be labeled speed, I assume).
I might suggest a simple toggle switch, "Acceleration: on/off".
The hover (or perhaps an [i]) tooltip wording here (seemingly only in touchpad
settings, by the way) would be trickier with only one on/off choice. In general
the distinction between speed (velocity) and acceleration of the pointer is
muddy when the user is constantly changing the pointer's speed themselves by
moving their real-life mouse/finger at different speeds. So, maybe a better
term than "acceleration" is possible here, like "boost" or "thrust" or
something?
OS: openSUSE Tumbleweed, latest snapshot
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