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A completely-from-scratch hobby operating system: bootloader, kernel, drivers, C library, and userspace including a composited graphical UI, dynamic linker, syntax-highlighting text editor, network stack, etc.
https://toaruos.org/
University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
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Touchpad too slow! #152

Closed ghost closed 6 years ago

ghost commented 7 years ago

Hi ! I just tried your live ISO on my HP laptop and (for me) the touchpad speed is too slow ! You should increase the touchpad speed.

Thanks.

klange commented 7 years ago

A video or other demonstration of the mouse speed would be appreciated, given the speed is perfectly reasonable in all of the environments I have tested in (including a laptop with a touchpad).

ghost commented 7 years ago

Thanks for your quick response, I'm glad to see you are OP even Sunday :+1:

My laptop is an HP dv6, this model to be precise... EDIT: And the technical details...

Yes there are many different dv6 models, but it's not uncommon hardware at all.

At least I hope I helped you a bit with this report, even if your are not open to discuss RAM usage with me, no problem, I can understand.

I really hope you will continue to improve your OS, because it's an encouraging beginning !

klange commented 7 years ago

I should probably add a configuration option for the mouse speed and acceleration. The trouble is that things are currently configured for one mouse unit = one pixel, so things can't just be sped up or you wouldn't be able to accurately position the mouse. We have no acceleration at the moment, so that's an option that may help. Something I want to work on for an upcoming release is a full settings panel with lots of configuration options for the things I've previously left at what I had hoped were "reasonable defaults".

ghost commented 7 years ago

No acceleration at the moment ? OK I understand.

A full settings panel with lots of config options ? Why not, but please KEEP IT SIMPLE.

In my view the perfect settings panel should be didactic with the user.

I mean: when I click to enable or disable some options, I would like to see which config files are actually modified and how they are modied. I mean: when I change my touchpad settings (for example), I would like to see which settings are modified in which config files...

I hope you see what I mean.

But I never see such functionality in any settings panel... They remain silent when they change something in the system, and it does not help the beginner to understand the internal system organization.

Regards ;)