On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 08:34:45PM +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote: > Hi!, > > As you probably know, there's been some work towards making drawing > tablets supported in Wayland. As with other device configurability > done previously to work on wayland too, this implies moving to > libinput-based input, also on the x11 side through > xf86-input-libinput. > > But this has supposed shuffling a lot of pieces around, all tablet > configuration happening in gnome-settings-daemon should be now > performed by mutter (as with other device configurability really), and > so do other miscellaneous things like mapping buttons to keycombos or > showing and OSD with the tablet button mapping. > > And it's actually in x11 support where timing got a bit tight, in the > first place mutter hasn't grown yet the support to apply our tablet > configuration on x11 (I've got code started here), but also there is > some configuration toggles still missing on xf86-input-libinput that > are needed to have 100% configuration support (stylus pressure and > "keep aspect" [1] settings most notably). > > So the status of my TODO to get to the full picture is: > > - Pad OSD needs moving to being handled by gnome-shell > (https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/log/?h=wip/pad-osd). Florian > promised me a review, which I expect at some point, although he jumped > into vacation since. > > - gnome-control-center needs changing to modifying the same settings > that mutter listens to, and adapt to the new configuration mockups > (https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/log/?h=wip/garnacho/wayland-tablet) > > - mutter needs to gain support for the X11 configuration, this is WIP, > but I'm optimistic that this can be sorted out for 3.22.0 if we go > ahead with all these changes and deem this a regression, it's > basically the same than we're doing currently on gnome-settings-daemon > for the most part, albeit maybe depending on brand new (read: still > undone) xf86-input-libinput features. Peter, feel free to crush my > hopes :).
KeepAspect or something similar should be in the xf86-input-libinput driver because that's where we control (some) of the pointer motion. For Wayland it's obviously in the compositor. For the pressure curve I'm not sure, I think we said we move this client-side long-term? Cheers, Peter > - After that, we can safely shut down the wacom plugin from > gnome-settings-daemon, everything it was doing is now taken care > somewhere else. I'm not posting a branch but you can imagine the > resulting patch. > > So the summary of freeze requests are: > - Pushing wip/pad-osd in gnome-shell > - Pushing wip/garnacho/wayland-tablet on gnome-control-center > - Disabling/dropping the wacom module from gnome-settings-daemon > > I know this implies a lot of late changes: dropping support for an > entire driver, new UI, losing some configurability at places > (temporarily, I hope), ... so I may understand if feels uneasy. Some > "middle ground" options I might think of are: > > - Still moving OSD and configuration management to mutter, although > with mixed xf86-input-libinput/wacom driver support to ensure we can > make X11 supported again ASAP. > - Wire mutter to using gsettings from gnome-settings-daemon so > x11/wayland share the same settings, and preserve the wacom plugin in > g-s-d for X11 mostly as-is. It would still be more convenient to have > the OSD in gnome-shell nonetheless. > > So, how far would you let me go? :) > > Cheers, > Carlos > > [1] So eg. a 4:3 tablet sacrifices some space in order to preserve > both axes unstretched if eg. mapping to a 16:9 monitor _______________________________________________ release-team@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team Release-team lurker? Do NOT participate in discussions.
