Mouse wheel acceleration?

[Will Rouesnel]

On Thu 15 Nov 2012 11:43:17 EST, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 08:51:23AM +1100, Will Rouesnel wrote:
>>     Is there any word on what happened to the efforts to support mouse
>>     wheel acceleration? It doesn't seem to be implemented in Xserver 1.12,
>>     and I can find no reference to it online beyond the initial posts on
>>     the Xorg-devel mailing list (
>>     http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-September/012517.html)
>>     Is it currently under any active development?
>
> no-one is working on it afaik, last patches (sep 2010) are here:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29905
>
> given that we have smooth scrolling now, IMO mouse wheel acceleration
> should be controlled more by the client side than the server, where it is
> harder to get right, tricky to configure, and may not even work consistently
> across devices.
>
> Cheers,
>     Peter

This doesn't quite make sense to me. Pointer acceleration in X isn't a 
client specific function, and the mouse wheel is - ultimately - just 
another pointer axis, with smooth scrolling expressing that properly 
now. Surely with proper mouse wheel axes now, it would simply be a 
matter of letting a pointer acceleration profile be defined for those 
axes?