[Sugar-devel] Wacom Bamboo with XO?

[Wade Brainerd]

Okay, Colors! v11 supports Wacom tablets, with pressure sensitivity.
Instructions for setup are on the activity page, it's really pretty
simple.

OLPC folks, it might be nice to update xorg-dcon.conf to support Wacom
tablets, and to include the linuxwacom package in builds.  I think
that deployments would be well served to have a few cheap graphics
tablets available for art classes, etc.  If you're interested, the
Colors! activity bundle contains the fixed xorg-dcon.conf.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Colors!

-Wade

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:34 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> [adding sugar-devel to cc as it's of interest to other platforms than olpc]
>
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:52 PM, Chris Marshall
> <jns-cmarshall at comcast.net> wrote:
>> pgf at laptop.org wrote:
>>> wade wrote:
>>>  > I'm partly set up to build kernels, I can give it a try at some point.
>>>  >
>>>  > Ultimately though, just mouse position and clicking isn't nearly
>>>  > enough.  You *at least* need pressure information for a decent tablet
>>>  > painting experience.
>>>
>>> right -- i'm hoping someone with some tablet experience will
>>> point to some tool that does the right config of the tablet.
>>
>> Well, I haven't yet figured out how to get an appropriate
>> OLPC kernel build set-up but from my investigation to date
>> it looks like the gtk.gdk class interface already has the
>> "smarts" to talk to tablets.
>>
>> By default, Wacom USB tablets start out in a generic HID mode.
>> The application would need to recognize the tablet, then
>> enable the full tablet driver and configuration.
>>
>>   http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/theory
>>
>>  From my reading of the gtk.gdk page it looks like those
>> should map directly to the tablet access info on the Wacom
>> HOWTO site.
>>
>> http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/appdev
>>
>> There is even a command line utility to config
>> the tablet that could probably be integrated into the
>> Sugar shell process or Sugarized into an activity of sorts:
>>
>> http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/xsetwacom
>
> Hi, in case someone is interested, adding a control panel section to
> Sugar is quite easy once you know a bit of pygtk, look here for the
> already existing examples:
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=sugar;a=tree;f=extensions/cpsection
>
> We should have nice documentation, but in the meantime, feel free to ask.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
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