On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 01:09:46PM +0100, Patrick Häcker wrote: > On Sun, 25 Dec 2016 14:23:30 +0100 Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 06:44:42PM +0100, Patrick Häcker wrote: > > > Package: consolation > > > Version: 0.0.4-1 > > > Severity: minor > > > Tags: patch > > > > the pointer acceleration speed option is named as "--set-speed=<value>" > > > when entering "--help" and in the man page. Albeit, the program searches > > > for the variable named "--speed". Please correct either the documentation > > > or the argument parsing code. > > > > > > When you are at it: It would be nice to add to the documentation that > > > smaller values lead to faster cursor movement. > > Hello Bill > > > Actually this a bug in libinput source code that is used as reference > > for consolation. > > /usr/bin/libinput-debug-events --help > > in the package libinput-tools has exactly the same issue. > okay, thanks. Both "--set-speed" versus "--speed" and the misleading name > are > basically copied from the libinput-tools package. As I assume, consolation > should stay in sync with libinput-tools, can you duplicate this bug and have > the duplicate point to package libinput-tools? Then both packages could be > fixed and still be kept in sync.
I have already forwarded this upstream. If I do not get any answer, I will duplicate the bug. > > It seems you forgot to attach the patch. > The tag was meant as: Instructions how to solve this bug are included and > probably not more work than applying a patch. Sorry if this lead to confusion. The issue is that I do not know what is the unit of the speed argument, and I expected your patch to clarify that. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
