Right, but we (as X11) don't care about GTK/Quartz. It's a great project, but something that doesn't really fall under the X11 umbrella. Even if GTK/Quartz has working tablet support, GTK/X11 on OSX won't. Right now, XQuartz reports the tablet motion/tilt/ pressure, and you can see this using the xinput application. GTK, however, doesn't recognize that information from us like it recognizes it from linux. That's more or less the problem. Thanks for looking into this. We'll try to get in contact with Owen and with any luck have a better tablet solution available soon =) --Jeremy On Aug 4, 2008, at 07:58, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:
contact Ben...
Jeremy,
would it be worth asking Ben to contact Owen via irc #GTK+ on irc.gnome.org
they seem like a friendly bunch. which can be rare in this thin atmosphere...
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
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from #GTK+ on irc.gnome.org
owen: I don't think that is separable from "fix XInput" The GTK+ API's are simple and clear, but XInput (as it has historically existed) is a broken system that doesn't give suffiicent information to hook it up to the GTK+ API Peter Hutterer has been doing some work on fixing XInput, though it's going to take some more attention to the ecosystem to get it really right (that is, you plug in a tablet, it just works everywhere out of the box)
owen 's concern about tablet operation on a proprietary operating system? Close to zero And on OS X, I think Gtk Quartz is more interesting place to spend effort
Anyways, my opinion on XQuartz + GTK i that it first needs to be fixed thoroughly on Linux, then the XQuartz changes to make it work out of the box will be obvious
ebassi: what owen is trying to say is that the native quartz backend is far more interesting than using X11 on OSX so the effort should go in fixing tablet support there_______________________________________________ Xquartz-dev mailing list Xquartz-dev@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/xquartz-dev