Re: [Linuxwacom-devel] [RFC PATCH] Duplicate the InputAttributes for dependent devices.

[Chris B. <ch...@cn...>]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Peter Hutterer <pet...@wh...>wrote:

> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:27:23AM +0300, Alexia Death wrote:
> > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Peter Hutterer
> > <pet...@wh...> wrote:
> > > fwiw, there's no requirement for uniqueness in device names. It's quite
> > > common to have devices with the same name, many mouse/keyboard combos
> have
> > > two or more devices with the same name and so do many touchscreens.
> > This is interesting. So If I use xsetwacom with a shared name, who
> > gets the config?
>
> no-one, xsetwacom will complain and require that you specify the ID instead
> :)
>
>
No strong opinions on my side either but my concerns are on how it effects
output of "xinput list".  Do I continue to see in that list what an "eraser"
is vs. a "touch"? Or would I need to issue a secondary command to see its
tags?

I've come to terms with duplicate device names (i.e. 2 erasers) since its
not unique to wacom.  So thats no biggy but it has been nice to immediately
see which part of tablet in its xinput name.

Also, thinking from a possible future configuration GUI perspective, it
would be nice if we could somehow bind a subset of devices together (a
unique value; maybe the xinput # of first device in chain; shared in a tag
or something).  That way you know what wacom "common" options are shared
among what other input devices.  This is especially useful for tablets that
have 2 input devices (such as Bamboo's) and so two sets of common options.

Chris