Comment 88 for bug 28052

The mouse settings on the Gnome Control Center are misnamed and misrepresentative.

I suspect a lot of people are adjusting "Sensitivity" and expecting the pointer to get faster, but sensitivity is actually just the motion threshold before the "Acceleration" multiplier is applied - and none of this is explained in the UI.

"Acceleration" needs to be renamed "Pointer Speed" or something. Sensitivity can then be left as is, since it'll make more sense in context.

The other thing is that the "Sensitivity" slider is both backwards AND misrepresentative. It represents a value in pixels from 1 to 10, so huge parts of it's adjustment don't do anything. It needs to be notched so it's apparent it's a very limited integer representation. It also needs to be reversed - the common interpretation of a "sensitive" mouse is one which is twitchy - but adjusting sensitivity to high set's the motion-threshold to 10, which means the mouse is actually very slow since acceleration takes a lot of movement to apply.

Finally, both of these sliders should probably have text input boxes next to them showing the exact numerical values they currently represent and allowing people to enter ones outside the current ranges - this would accomodate edge cases where it's not enough.