Re: [Linuxwacom-discuss] Magick Rotation 1.0

[Favux ... <fav...@gm...>]

Hi Ping,

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Ping Cheng <pin...@gm...> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Favux ... <fav...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm pleased to announce that our little python-gtk applet Magick
>> Rotation has gone 1.0 and is now hosted on Launchpad.
>
> Thank you Favux for sharing the news with us.

Thank you for your interest.

>> It provides automatic rotation support for HP tablet pc's.
>
> I guess it could (or maybe it is) also support all Tablet PCs since
> rotation is not HP TPC specific.
>
>> It uses the swivel
>> hinge switch and hp-wmi to monitor the rotation state.  Devices on the
>> wacom driver and evdev driver are both  rotated.

Well it depends on the hp-wmi kernel module.  We'd definitely consider
supporting the Dell XT and XT2's because of our interest in N-trig.
Plus we could easily recruit testers.  But the dell-wmi needs to be
patched to separate out the swivel hinge or tablet event from the
docking event like Matthew Garrett did for us with hp-wmi.  His patch
has been in the kernel since 2.6.31.  Rafi's been meaning to do that,
but I don't know where he is with it.

There are a couple of Python scripts that rotate based on the
accelerometer.  There's been talk of adding that feature.  That would
add some non-HP tablets.  But we don't have accelerometers to test
with.  One reason to host on Launchpad and hope for code
contributions.

Some tablet pc's have a swivel hinge switch that gives a signal
through ACPI so I suppose we could include them too.

>> HP tablet pc's supported are the TX2000, TX2500, TX2z (N-trig),
>> 2700p's, TM2, and TM2t.
>>
>> We took it to version 1.0 due to a major code reorganization by
>> jayhawk, the new lead developer.
>
> Are you guys planning to add calibration to your "Magick" :)? That is
> an important feature for all display tablets.

Right now, in lieu of wacomcpl, we use xinput_calibrator:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xinput_calibrator
Then we use a tablet or tablet pc specific xsetwacom script with
xinput_calibrator's coordinates in xsetwacom commands.
We haven't thought of adding a calibration feature.

The feature we're currently planning on adding next is the ability to
turn touch off and on whether it's on the wacom or evdev driver.  I'm
currently making icons for that for our icon set.

> Ping

Favux