On Sun, 2012-02-05 at 10:49 -0600, Favux ... wrote: > 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.
We don't apply any configuration to the Wacom tablet mice in GNOME. We consider them to be a way to save some desk space. We also don't support the Lens cursor (which I gather is just a mouse with a crosshair attached). > 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. What do you want the UI to do? The name will already be "generic stylus". I don't think we can go much further than that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
