Hi Gautam, Thank you for sharing your updated calibration tool. This offers us another approach to provide a new GUI tool to the end users, who are not as savvy as you (a developer of this project and a professor at Stanford :). Peter has also suggested an approach to integrate the CPL to GNOME.
These are all excellent next generation wacomcpl solutions for xf86-input-wacom since we now support property (for integration with GNOME) and Gtk is pretty much standard in all distros (for using your approach). However, the key problem remains: who is going to work on it? We (or I if you want the accuracy :) didn't use your approach when you shared it the first time ( http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1959146&group_id=69596&atid=525126) was due to the following factors: 1. At that time, a few major distros, such as RHEL 4, didn't provide Gtk2; 2. We don't have extra resource to work on two sets of GUI tools: one for older systems and one for newer. And we don't even have the resource to port the other functionality from tcl/tk based wacomcpl to Gtk2-perl based GUI. I am not asking you to do the work (I know I don't have the right :). I only want to make sure you know the rational if your approach does not get included into the release. Ping On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 1:05 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I just wiped my Gentoo box and switched to Debian. Everything works well > out of the box, except wacomcpl. There are two issues with this: > > 1. Debian doesn't ship wacomcpl along with the other wacom tools. (I > have no idea why, but there is a bug filed against it.) > > 2. It doesn't work anyway :). > > The issue is that > > xsetwacom list dev > > returns nothing. I know xsetwacom is being redesigned right now, so this > is probably not an issue in the latest version (Debian ships 0.8.3.2 in > testing). > > Most of wacomcpl's functionality can be done by RTFM + xsetwacom, so > it's not a bother for me. The notable exception however is stylus > calibration. One needs an interface to get the calibration parameters > right. > > I'm attaching a GTK+Perl script I use for stylus calibration modified to > work under such circumstances. The differences from wacomcpl are > > 1. This only calibrates the stylus. No functionality for other > things. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
