On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 01:48:49AM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Fri, 2016-10-28 at 16:23 -0700, Ping Cheng wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:53 AM, Bastien Nocera <had...@hadess.net> > > wrote: > > > On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 13:39 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > > > > There is no physical LED to show the current mode, but the tablet > > > > was > > > > clearly > > > > intended to be used that way [1] and we already reserve two > > > > buttons > > > > as mode > > > > switch buttons anyway. Declare it correctly and let the userspace > > > > stack worry > > > > about displaying mode switches (it's already responsible for > > > > changing > > > > LEDs > > > > anyway). > > > > > > > > [1] "The ambidextrous design of the Cintiq 22HD touch features a > > > > pair > > > > of > > > > rear-mounted Touch Strips, along with accompanying Touch Strip > > > > Toggle > > > > buttons. > > > > Each controls up to four application-specific functions, such as > > > > brush size, > > > > zooming, scrolling and on-screen canvas rotation." > > > > https://buywacom.com.au/cintiq-22hd-touch.html > > > > > > Looks like this would need user-space changes to show an OSD when > > > the > > > feature is being used. In the meanwhile, I'd hold off on making a > > > change until at least one front-end implemented the functionality. > > > > Maybe it's not a bad idea to make the change now so front-end can > > rely > > on it when user-space is ready, as long as the change won't break the > > existing user-space implementation. Does that make sense? > > If you made that change without the corresponding user-space changes, > you'd have a button that used to work as simply a button, and that now > would change modes without any feedback as to which mode it's using.
the buttons are already assigned to the strips. not 100% what gnome does, but I'd expect them to be dead right now given they're assigned to the strips but the strips have no mode. > I would at least expect a bug filed explaining the intent (for GNOME I > guess), so that Carlos has a chance to look into how we'd hook the UI > for this. see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771098 Cheers, Peter > > It might be a one-liner once a lot of the calibration and setup UI has > moved into the shell but we won't know until we're there. > > Cheers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Command Line: Reinvented for Modern Developers Did the resurgence of CLI tooling catch you by surprise? Reconnect with the command line and become more productive. Learn the new .NET and ASP.NET CLI. Get your free copy! http://sdm.link/telerik _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-devel mailing list Linuxwacom-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
