Re: [DIGImend-devel] Tools/applets for non-wacom tablets

[Nikolai K. <sp...@gm...>]

Hi Alex,

Sorry for a very late reply, but better late than never.

On 05/09/2013 10:51 PM, Alex Stewart wrote:
> First of all, I was a little apprehensive, because it was listed as "in
> development" on the support status page, but I recently went ahead and
> bought a Monoprice MP1060-HA60 tablet, and (after upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04
> to get a new enough kernel) plugged it in and it started working beautifully
> out of the box (pressure sensitivity and everything) with no configuration
> required (aside from the normal app-level configuration in Gimp, etc).  Very
> painless!  Well done!

Thanks! The tablet is mostly supported, the only problem is the mapping of the
frame buttons, which is more of a global problem which needs to be solved for
all the tablets. Perhaps I should move it to "supported".

> Now on to my question..  Apologies if this is not the right place to ask,
> but I've been poking around a bit on the wiki and elsewhere on the net and
> haven't found any obvious answer:  Since my tablet does not use the wacom
> driver, the normal GNOME "Wacom Graphics Tablet" system settings applet does
> not appear to work with it.  Are there currently any tools/applets/utilities
> out there which can be used to make calibration/mapping/etc configuration
> easier for DIGImend-based tablets, similar to the available Wacom utilities?

Not that I know of. I had a plan to make one, but as you can see from my late
reply, there are other issues that are occupying me.

> Secondary question: Do you know if anybody out there is currently doing any
> work to add support for evdev-based tablets to the GNOME (Wacom) tablet
> settings applet?  I would potentially be interested in contributing to such
> an effort, if it would be useful/worthwhile..

The Wacom applet is aimed at working with the Wacom tablets and uses the
wacom-specific library. A better idea which I was nurturing for some time and
was doing some work for is to make the Wacom driver work with other tablets.

Actually, some Waltop tablets can already work with the Wacom drivers and
benefit from the Wacom settings applet.

Sincerely,
Nick