-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Private-sparsha-dev] tablets and auto-rotation Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:00:26 -0700 From: Kees Cook <kees.c...@canonical.com> Organization: Canonical To: Bryce Harrington <br...@canonical.com> CC: Duncan M. McGreggor <duncan.mcgreg...@canonical.com>, Rick Spencer <rick.spen...@canonical.com>
Hi Bryce, On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:23:46AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:45:18AM -0400, Chase Douglas wrote: > > 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. > > Kees Cook was also working on patch to g-s-d to solve this problem on > his laptop at UDS. IIRC, he'd also implemented it using xsetwacom, but > we'd also talked about the changes to xinput; I don't know if he updated > his patch for that, but I'm CCing him. > > Kees - mind pointing us to your tablet rotation patch? Would at least > be interesting to have it to compare with Federico's code. Sorry I didn't send this earlier, I kept getting distracted by other things. Yes, I wrote it to use XInput. Also, it seems that g-s-d is not actually the right place to put this, as it is just one of many tools that could be issuing a rotation request. The patch is actually needed in gnome-desktop. I've attached it to https://launchpad.net/bugs/599478 -Kees -- Kees Cook Ubuntu Security Team _______________________________________________ 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
