Hello Tony, The standard procedure is to file a wishlist bug against the 'wnpp' package by sending email to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', with subject 'RFP: <package> -- <description>' and the lines
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist at the top of your message. Sounds like an interesting program. I look forward to seeing it in Debian. :) Regards, Steve Langasek postmodern programmer On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Tony Mantler wrote: > I'm assuming this is the right address to send this to, please correct me > if I am in error. > I've written some software that could use debianizing, and I'd like to > encourage some kind package maintainer out there to package it. It can be > obtained from <http://www.apia.dhs.org/software/macc/>. > Anyways, the story: > I hate mouse acceleration under linux, mostly because there pretty much is > none, and what is there is disgustingly linear and imprecise and not even > worthy of the term 'acceleration'. > So, I fixed it. > Through the wonders of mathemagic, my program (MAcc), reads in mouse data > in ps/2 or imps/2 format, accelerates it in a delightfully smooth and > precise non-linear fasion, and then spits it back out again to a fifo for > reading by (for example) an X server. > This allows you to both split pixels at low mouse velocities, and at the > same time lets you zip across even the largest screen without needing a > 4-foot mousepad (It works great with trackballs too). Cool, huh? 8) > It's been tested to function on both PowerPC and ix86.