On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 09:30 -0700, Jason Gerecke wrote: > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Bastien Nocera <had...@hadess.net> wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 15:28 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > >> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 02:25:11PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: > >> > Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net> > >> > >> yikes. after running a few more tests I realised that this isn't actually > >> enough. the bamboos define buttons 1, 3, 8 and 9 and we cannot currently > >> handle non-continuous button ranges, neither in libwacom nor the gnome > >> stack. So button 9 is unknown, as we expect buttons 1, 2, 3 and 8. > >> > >> So the below patch only solves the problem partially. > >> > >> as for solutions: I think claiming the bamboo has 5 buttons would be a good > >> enough hack for now until we add non-continuous button range support. > >> Opinions? > > > > Make the driver fix it? > > > Can you expand on that a little more? > > The long-term solution that springs first to my mind (because its been > *on* my mind for months) would be to change how the "Wacom Button > Actions" property is indexed. Instead of having it be indexed by the > X11 button number I think it should be indexed by the kernel button > number (i.e. identically to libwacom). The problem with my grand idea > is that it breaks anything which reads/writes the properties directly. > Not breaking users existing configs is pretty high on the priority > list, so this plan is a non-starter without hashing out some kind of > migration plan to keep the GNOME and KDE panels working. > > If you've got an idea of your own though, I'm all ears.
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