[adding sugar-devel to cc as it's of interest to other platforms than olpc]
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Chris Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> wade wrote: >> > I'm partly set up to build kernels, I can give it a try at some point. >> > >> > Ultimately though, just mouse position and clicking isn't nearly >> > enough. You *at least* need pressure information for a decent tablet >> > painting experience. >> >> right -- i'm hoping someone with some tablet experience will >> point to some tool that does the right config of the tablet. > > Well, I haven't yet figured out how to get an appropriate > OLPC kernel build set-up but from my investigation to date > it looks like the gtk.gdk class interface already has the > "smarts" to talk to tablets. > > By default, Wacom USB tablets start out in a generic HID mode. > The application would need to recognize the tablet, then > enable the full tablet driver and configuration. > > http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/theory > > From my reading of the gtk.gdk page it looks like those > should map directly to the tablet access info on the Wacom > HOWTO site. > > http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/appdev > > There is even a command line utility to config > the tablet that could probably be integrated into the > Sugar shell process or Sugarized into an activity of sorts: > > http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/xsetwacom Hi, in case someone is interested, adding a control panel section to Sugar is quite easy once you know a bit of pygtk, look here for the already existing examples: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=sugar;a=tree;f=extensions/cpsection We should have nice documentation, but in the meantime, feel free to ask. Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel