Okay, Colors! v11 supports Wacom tablets, with pressure sensitivity. Instructions for setup are on the activity page, it's really pretty simple.
OLPC folks, it might be nice to update xorg-dcon.conf to support Wacom tablets, and to include the linuxwacom package in builds. I think that deployments would be well served to have a few cheap graphics tablets available for art classes, etc. If you're interested, the Colors! activity bundle contains the fixed xorg-dcon.conf. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Colors! -Wade On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [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 > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
