-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Private-sparsha-dev] tablets and auto-rotation Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:45:18 -0400 From: Chase Douglas <chase.doug...@canonical.com> To: Alberto Milone <alberto.mil...@canonical.com> CC: Rick Spencer <rick.spen...@canonical.com>, Bryce Harrington <br...@canonical.com>, "Duncan M. McGreggor" <duncan.mcgreg...@canonical.com>, Sparsha Dev <private-sparsha-...@lists.launchpad.net>
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 15:38 +0200, Alberto Milone wrote: > I couldn't attend the UDS but I know that Federico Mena Quintero (at > Novell) was working on this in a separate branch of the > gnome-settings-daemon but he hasn't committed anything upstream yet (I > guess he's focusing on different projects): > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/log/?h=randr-rotate-wacom-tablet > > As Rafi said, this solution also involves setting a gconf key to tell > the daemon whether we want it to rotate input devices or not when > screens are rotated. > > Currently Federico's code makes use of the xsetwacom tool instead of > using Xinput (which is what we need). I'm very familiar with the > gnome-settings-daemon code and, if there's enough interest at > Canonical, I'm available to work on it but I don't own any Ntrig > touchscreen and I can't use my Stantum tablet because it doesn't work > with xinput Calibration. I'll second this approach. I believe this is the correct place to fix the issue. I'll let Duncan handle how to pour resources into this, but this looks promising. -- Chase _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev Post to : multi-touch-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
