[Linuxwacom-discuss] Bamboo buttons

[Michal S. <hra...@ce...>]

Hello

I tried running the Bamboo tablet with the touch ring and Bamboo Pen
and Touch and on both the button assignment is quite odd.

The Bamboo with touch ring has four buttons around the touch ring
assigned like this:

+-----±-----+
|  1/   \2  |
+--+     +--+
|  3\   /8  |
+-----∓-----+

Since the button 1 press is generated by touching the pen to the
tablet, buttons 2 and 3 are on the pen and buttons 4 and 5 are
generated by the touch ring it would be more useful to have buttons
6,7,8 and 9 assigned to the pad buttons. Since buttons 6 and 7 are
used for horizontal scrolling it would also match the symbols on the
buttons.

If the standard buttons are to be replicated on the pad then it would
be advisable to place the buttons 1 and 3 in pair such as 1 3 2 2 or 6
7 1 3 (the button 2 by default emulated anyway).

On Bamboo Pen and Touch the buttons are arranged like this:

+---------+
|         |
|         |
|    1    |
|         |
|         |
+---------+
|    2    |
|         |
+---------+
+---------+
|         |
|    3    |
+---------+
|         |
|         |
|    8    |
|         |
|         |
+---------+

Again, it would be advisable to place the buttons 1 and 3 on the
prominent positions like 1 2 2 3 or 1 4 5 3. Once the gestures work
reliably it might be more useful to assign some high numbers by
default.

Is there any plan to make the default button assignments sensible or
are they going to be just random with no use for the button unless
everyone reassigns them on their tablets?

Thanks

Michal