[Sugar-devel] Tablet support

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 7 March 2011 15:14, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Wade,
>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Chris Marshall, Ping Cheng (of Wacom) and myself have started work on a project to add graphics tablet (such as Wacom Bamboo) to Sugar.
>>
>> Our goal is to submit patches over the next six months adding a wacom driver, a control panel extension, and activity support to Sugar.
>>
>> We're targeting both XO and XO 1.5, currently planning to support 10.1.3 and future builds.
>>
>> Progress reports will be posted to the project wiki page at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects/Tablet_Support.
>
> There should already be a driver for them as there's a driver for
> wacom tablets already included in Fedora, which the OS for the XO is
> based upon. In terms of changes to that you'll need to work with the
> upstream Fedora team to ensure changes to that go upstream first. I
> believe Peter Hutterer is doing quite a bit of work on the wacom
> drivers upstream at xorg at the moment so it might be worthwhile
> aligning with him to minimise duplication and ensure that its easy to
> get your work into future XO releases.

Any news on where we are with this?

Thanks,
Sridhar