Re: Tablet support status (or, hitting jackpot with freeze break requests)

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Hi Carlos,

Thanks for your work on this.

> So the summary of freeze requests are:
> - Pushing wip/pad-osd in gnome-shell
> - Pushing wip/garnacho/wayland-tablet on gnome-control-center
> - Disabling/dropping the wacom module from gnome-settings-daemon
>
> I know this implies a lot of late changes: dropping support for an
> entire driver, new UI, losing some configurability at places
> (temporarily, I hope), ... so I may understand if feels uneasy.

Indeed.  It may be early in the freeze but it's too much and I'm -1 on
this, let's have it for 3.24.


> Some "middle ground" options I might think of are:
>
> - Still moving OSD and configuration management to mutter, although
> with mixed xf86-input-libinput/wacom driver support to ensure we can
> make X11 supported again ASAP.
> - Wire mutter to using gsettings from gnome-settings-daemon so
> x11/wayland share the same settings, and preserve the wacom plugin in
> g-s-d for X11 mostly as-is. It would still be more convenient to have
> the OSD in gnome-shell nonetheless.
>
> So, how far would you let me go? :)

I want to avoid all risks of regressions in X11 (this means the second
middle ground option).  The thing is I don't want to get tablet users
in the impossible position of having to pick between working tablet
support in Wayland and whatever feature or application they were using
on X and that for any reason fails on Wayland.



        Fred