[Sugar-devel] Tablet support

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> 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?

This is an outline of what gnome is doing for tablet support.

https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Tablet

I'm not sure how much of the work can be reused, or be contributed to
as part of their project to save on duplication.

Peter