[ubuntu-x] UDS: Graphical Configuration Tool for Wacom Tablets & TabletPCs

[Bryce Harrington]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:46:31PM +0100, Lo?c Martin wrote:
> The discussion for a Graphical Configuration Tool for Wacom Tablets &
> TabletPCs is scheduled tomorrow at UDS. I've read the specs at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Blueprints/WacomTabletsUi , and there's far
> more options going into the specs than when we last discussed it in
> ubuntu-x.

Yes, we probably need to prioritize these.

> On Nov. 12, Bryce said "For Jaunty I think we should shoot for
> a subset of that concept.". I've updated the UI mockup since at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Wacom/PropertiesMockup. However, since then
> Alberto has created https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Blueprints/WacomTabletsUi
> and there's lot of options going into that tool.
> 
> What are we shooting for in Jaunty?

We'll need to discuss/decide this at the session.  Like I'd mentioned
earlier I'd like to set expectations to something fairly basic.  We can
expand on that as developers have time.  I also like providing something
basic, so we can get plenty of user feedback on that before we get too
locked into a more sophisticated design concept.

> I've checked the xorg mailing lists archives for a few weeks, and
> there's still no solution offered for the post-xorg.conf era.

Do you mean input-hotplug support in wacom-tools?  Yes I'd love to hear
some plans upstream around that, and a rough idea of an ETA.

> On another
> note, if we're going to add all the options from
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Blueprints/WacomTabletsUi in xorg.conf, the
> file will get really big. Another approach is just creating the
> necessary lines in xorg.conf, and keeping the options in a .wacomrc file
> that the desktop would load at startup (so just xsetwacom lines), which
> might be simpler (and quite easy for the user to understand + each user
> can add its options/preferences without needing sudo rights - they'd
> only be needed to add or remove wacom support in xorg.conf).

Does xsetwacom accept a .wacomrc file input currently?

Regardless, I think it's a good idea.  I don't care so much about
xorg.conf becoming big, but the fewer times the user has to fiddle with
xorg.conf as root, the fewer chances for the user to see bulletproof-x
(or worse).  ;-)

This is the same use case as applying xrandr settings during startup.
So we should make sure to use the same approach for solving both.
(E.g., an .xrandrrc file the desktop would load at startup).

> I can also do some more mockups, but I don't know what's going to be
> included for Jaunty.

Stay tuned, hopefully the gobby document will gather folks' ideas from
the session and give some more solid ideas on what we'll shoot for in
jaunty.

Bryce