Pen Tablet support and a usability study

[Patrick Dubroy]

For the last couple months, I've been working on the higher-level
support for the XO Pen Tablet (for more information, see here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pen_Tablet_Support).

If anyone's interested, I've got a couple of activities available
which will let you play with the tablet on an XO:

- TabletAreaTest
(http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pen_Tablet_Support/GTK_Widget#Sample_Activity)
demonstrates a GTK widget that is mapped to tablet input
- tabletui (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pen_Tablet_UI#Prototype)
explores some user interface prototypes for the unconstrained drawing
case (http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pen_Tablet_UI#Unconstrained_drawing)

These activities have been developed for build 656, meaning they don't
require any special driver support (other than /dev/input/event<x>).
I'd love to see people give these a go and let me know what they
think.

I also just completed a user study on some of my prototype user
interfaces. I've summarized the results here:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pen_Tablet_UI/User_Study

Feedback is welcome -- either directly, or on the appropriate Talk page.

Pat
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