Talk:Mouse dpi

DPI should be capitalized

Calculations
I would like to know how the movement of the mouse relates to the movement of the cursor on the screen. Rather than just deleting the "nonsense" calculations, could somebody please supply some sensible ones? Biscuittin 21:56, 8 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, first of all, it's not so easy to say, since the OS interposes itself with things like speed scaling and acceleration. But if you go back to when things were simple, you'd get a movement of 1 screen pixel for each step reported by the mouse.  So a 200 dpi mouse moving 1 inch would move your cursor 200 screen pixels.  The calculations I removed that included screen size and screen pixels per square inch and such were not related to any reality that I can imagine. Dicklyon 21:59, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Thank you. I withdraw my objection to deletion. Biscuittin 22:04, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Redirect proposal
I don't think there's much to say here; the opening sentence says it all: "Mouse dpi describes the number of steps a mouse will report when it moves one inch." So how about we redirect it to Mouse (computing), perhaps to the "Mouse speed" section? Dicklyon 06:25, 10 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I was actually about to suggest this myself. There's no need for this to be a seperate article in its own right. It would make more sense (obviously, this is POV) for it to be a small section in the main Mouse (computing) article.


 * It's OK to express your POV in a talk page. I'll just do it. Dicklyon 15:24, 15 August 2007 (UTC)