Re: [Gimp-developer] [Gimp-user] ANNOUNCE: GIMP 2.7.5 released

[Alexia Death <alexiadeath gmail com>]

Hi,

Wdaemon is pretty much obsolete in modern linux distributions. Only
thing that does not do hotplug yet is GTK2 and the requirement of
restarting gimp after you plug in your tablet and keeping it plugged
in while GIMP is  running is not that onerous to justify using wdaemon
in most cases.

The original poster actually already got his answers for IRC I
believe. There should be no tablet regressions between 2.7.4 and 2.7.5
on Linux. On windows, at least the initial build failed to pick up any
tablets at all for me, reason is yet unknown.

If you need to build your own gtk, do not forget --with-xinput
parameter on linux, there is probably a comparable flag for windows.
Without it your freshly built GTK wont have any tablet support and
extended devices remain grayed out or not there at all.



On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Ragnar Brynjúlfsson <ragtag ragtag net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I don't know how Linux Mint sets up it's tablet, but in the past
> I've used wdaemon (
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/linuxwacom/index.php?title=Wdaemon
> ), to make hot-plugging of wacom tablets work under CentOS 4/5. It
> basically creates a virtual tablet that is connected all the time, and
> then captures the tablet when you connect it and uses it in place of
> the virtual tablet. This means, that to the system, the tablet is
> never disconnected.
>
>  Isn't this an issue with the X server, and not GIMP or GTK+?
>
> Ragnar
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:54 PM,  <jfrazierjr nc rr com> wrote:
>>
>> ---- Michael Natterer <mitch gimp org> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>
>>>GIMP 2.7.5 has been released. This is the last development snapshot in
>>>the unstable 2.7 series that leads to 2.8. Only release candidates and
>>>the 2.8 release will follow.
>>
>>>For a complete list of changes since 2.7.4 please see the "Changes"
>>>section below. Also see the release notes of the 2.7 series at
>>>http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.7.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> There is a section of the release notes which discusses tablets and one
>> or more bugs in GTK+:
>>
>> "GIMP 2.8 relies on a newer version of GTK+2 that unfortunately has
>> partially broken support for graphics tablets such as Wacom. If your
>> graphic tablet doesn't work in GIMP 2.8 as it should, we recommend
>> downgrading to 2.6 until we release GIMP 3.0 that relies on GTK+3 which
>> has fully functional support for advanced input devices."
>>
>>
>> Can anyone point to the specific(or multiple) bug details?  Does 2.7.5
>> require a greater version of GTK+ compared to 2.7.4?   The reason I
>> ask is that of course I have a tablet and had some issues with it not
>> working after unplugging/re-plugging(greyed out in Extended Input
>> Devices even after reboot).   I did end up doing two things at the time
>> and one of them ended up fixing the issue with some thoughts thrown out
>> by people on the IRC channel:
>>
>> 1) rebooted with only tablet plugged up(ie, disconnected my mouse which
>> was NOT plugged in when the OS, Linux Mint 12, was installed.
>>
>> 2) recompiled gtk+(had to download and compile since distro version
>> was less than required.. not sure what version I grabbed though) and
>> added the option to ./configure for, not quite sure of the name and
>> can't check right now, but something like --with_xinput or something
>> like that...Which I am fairly sure I did NOT do the first time.
>>
>> 3) recompiled gimp 2.7.4(taken from git the day after 2.7.4 was released).
>>
>> This ended up fixing the problem.   Needless to say, I have not
>> dis-connected my tablet again, so I don't know for sure if the issue
>> would come back or not...   At this point, my tablet is working perfectly
>> and while I would like to upgrade, I don't want to break the tablet again...
>>
>>
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--Alexia