Follow-up Comment #7, bug #17005 (project mypaint):
Thanks for the answer, I'm happy to know I can get it working and start using
some of its new features. I'm not particularly attached to the name, so I'll
be changing it as soon as I finish this post (updating the source with git
right now for the eraser).
The device names were originally based on the Wacom-Tablet-HOWTO in
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO. I started using a tablet with XFree86 (before xorg and
autoconfiguration became standard) and had to use the HOWTO for configuration
at the time. Can't take the configuration out of xorg.conf now without
making a mess of things due to Twinview and the rotation, so I just stuck
with the original names since it didn't seem to matter.
I agree that it's annoying to have to configure things manually when they
should "just work" and good autodetection should work for most cases, but
there are occasionally fringe cases where autodetection will fail. Perhaps
an option to specify it manually in settings.conf that isn't visible in the
GUI? Invisible to most users but available if needed.
I'm surprised there isn't a better way to get the device type than guessing
by the Identifier. When installed, *xsetwacom --list dev* shows what each
device is, but I don't know how it gets the info, I just know X tracks the
type (it shows up in Xorg's logs as well: '(II) XINPUT: Adding extended
input device "pad1" (type: PAD)'"). Could this information be used on
platforms where it's available, with a fallback to name guessing if
unavailable? I don't use Python very often (more familar with Perl), but I
could attempt to hack something together to try finding the device type from
X if there's no design reason preventing it.
Thanks again.
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