2011/9/29 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net>: > Much further down the line is the magic LED changes that we talked about in > the other thread - changing the LED at the same time as all button > assignments.
Here some of my thoughts. Please take them with a grain of salt, because I'm just "thinking loud". * Having a stable interface betweein all the components is hard. Components meaning kernel driver, x11 driver, library, external software. When taking the LEDs as an example: For the "nice to have" features (I'm not using the table professionally), the kernel driver patch, the x11 driver patch, and the external tool patch has to be developed and maintained. This seems to be very restrictive, and possibly kill interest of volunteers (like myself). * I have no concrete picture yet on how the Intuos/Cintiq LED stuff can be exposed reasonably by a library. In particular, I have not the slightest idea how future (wacom) devices might look like, and how to provide enough extensibility for it. * There are one or two design patterns, which provide at least "on paper" the possibility to support more than one (G-)UI. (Possibly far-fetched) examples are Firefox and OpenOffice, which work on at least three platforms (Windows, Linux, MacOS). I'm _not_ saying we should support other kernels (aside from Linux or maybe BSD), but having support for GTK and QT would already provide a lot. * Question wrt my needs: Is there already a daemon which could provide per-application shortcuts and button/axis assignments? If yes, then this would at least give a good reason for having a software external to the wacom x11 driver. * It would be nice to have a means of querying the value range for a Input Device Property. I assume that the X11 protocol will not provide this in the near future. Do you think it is worth elaborating my statements? Eduard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-devel mailing list Linuxwacom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
