[Xquartz-dev] contact Ben...

[Jeremy Huddleston]

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
>
> j.chetwynd at btinternet.com
> http://www.openicon.org/
>
> +44 (0) 20 7978 1764
>
>
> 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  
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