Re: questions on tablet support

["Jon A. Cruz" <jon joncruz org>]

On Apr 9, 2009, at 6:22 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 01:31 -0700, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was just getting back to tablet support on OSX after a distracting
> > round of "real life".
> >
> > It appears that most of the documentation is from the 1.x timeframe,
> > and much of that is out of date. Is there anyone around who might
> > know the current state of things on X11? Trying to uniquely identify
> > various devices is one aspect that there are some questions with. For
> > example, are the GdkDevice pointers returned by gdk_devices_list()
> > consistent through the lifetime of the application?
>
> Not with the latest X.org server, as devices can come and go. See:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575768
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575767

Drat. Sounds like what I was afraid of, and that the API itself needs  
to be changed/enhanced.