GIMP 2.8 device handling issue with multi input devices
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On the Configure Input Devices dialog you can see and configure only one of the devices.
(For example in case of Genius MousePen i608X you can see the pen or the mouse dependig on which is the first in the xinput list.)
The reported bug is here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674253
This could also be solved by resolving this bug:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=1089171&aid=3531997&group_id=233297
An update: The bug moved to product: gtk+, component: GdkDevice, Version: 3.6.x.
With the following comments:
--- Comment #1 from Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org> 2012-10-07 19:05:29 UTC ---
We only know the device's name, th public GDK API has no concept
of ad device "ID". Distinguishing different devices with identical
names can only be done inside GDK, and somehow reported via piblic
API. Moving to GTK+.