[Sugar-devel] Tablet support

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On 24 May 2011 01:22, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> Any news on where we are with this?

Peter Hutterer was kind enough to update me on where the driver
development is at. I've included his reply (with permission) below.

Peter informs me that Chris Bagwell is the best person to speak with
about the Wacom Bamboo tablet, which is their cheapest model.

Sridhar


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Peter Hutterer
Date: 24 May 2011 12:31
Subject: Re: Tablet support
To: Sridhar Dhanapalan


the upstream driver (currently version 0.11) will work just fine for most
tablets and have a reasonable out-of-the-box experience. where things are
still a bit iffy is in the configuration. wacom has historically provided a
huge amount of configuration options and some tend to be difficult to
maintain. this shouldn't affect average users.

we don't have a graphical configuration UI in F15, but we do have some
support for wacom in gnome-settings-daemon. A few days ago, I got a mockup
for how the gnome-control-center plugin should look like so by the time F16
comes around we should have a UI. that probably won't affect you too much
with sugar tough.

If you're on a F14 system, I simply recommend getting the 0.11 driver. I can
probably update F14 to 0.11 but i'm rather hesitant because new syntax would
break scripts.

As for the cost - hard to judge. the tablets are all several hundred
dollars. Bamboos are the cheapest option but also the trickest to keep
working. Luckily Chris Bagwell has done tremendous work on the bamboos to
keep them working, so the same applies - out-of-the box works fine,
excessive configuration may show issues.