Wacom config hacks (was: An example of how things should *not* be done)

[Vincenzo Ciancia]

Il giorno mer, 23/04/2008 alle 12.38 -0400, Martin Owens ha scritto:
> 
> I'd like my wacom tablet to work, I'd also like not to have X warnings
> about it not being plugged in. I'd also like my tablet to work as soon
> as  I plug it in and not have to restart X every time to get none
> mouse functionality.
> 
> Is there a ticket for this specific bug instead of the symptoms.

here

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wacom-tools/+bug/42553

it was commented that new version of the drivers will support
autodetection. That bug should have been opened contextually to dropping
wacom support in xorg.conf and marked priority high in my opinion  so
that developers would have taken a decision on time for gutsy.
Introducing a regression on purpose and not making a note in some
developers TODO list does not give a good impression to me. This might
happen to every piece of software I use so I can't rely on my past
experience to know what will work and what not. However I realize that
nobody in the developers community really cared about that precise issue
until I complained, so this may indicate that there are not so great
expectations for ubuntu to support tablets. The user base is small hence
a specific addon could be as well provided separately or in a variant of
ubuntu such as tabuntu (before the invention of ubuntu variants that'd
have been a fork... this is lovely by ubuntu, to embrace alternatives
instead of rejecting those).

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