I've long suspected that if the stylus will work with the digitizer on a consumer tablet then all the stylus hardware will work too. So if your BambooPT was a Pen model without an eraser a Bamboo Pen & Touch model stylus with an eraser would have a working eraser even on the Pen. And the same with the tablet PCs. However I can recall only a few folks reporting this; apparently getting a new stylus isn't very common. So it is good you confirm it Jason.
Given that is true then we don't want to restrict stylus or other capabilities for consumer tablets in libwacom. So the upshot is whether the different capabilities of the stylus need to be take into account in the applet. For example something that has been constantly seen since the xorg.conf days is folks having a section for the cursor even though their tablet doesn't come with a mouse/puck. However just like the stylus I suspect if the base model supports a puck then their tablet would even though it was packaged without one. Apparently a lot think the cursor refers to the pointer arrow rather than another input tool. If the applet is presenting them with options to configure a non-existent cursor, stylus side switch or eraser people will be trying to configure them. And then asking why that doesn't work. A lot of people with their first Wacom tablet don't realize what a Wacom eraser looks like and don't know if they have one or not or that it only works in eraser enabled programs. It would be a good thing if the Wacom tablet applet's interface somehow helped clear up confusion over the input tools. Through tool tips? May be asking too much, but at least something to keep in the back of the mind. Favux ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-devel mailing list Linuxwacom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
