Ancestors

Written by Peter Hutterer on 2024-12-05 at 23:36

Another busy 3 months for libwacom but 2.14 is now out and we have new APIs to support styli from vendors other than Wacom (this appears to be mostly a theoretical case for now) and a new integration flag to denote remotes like the Wacom ExpressKey Remote, Huion KD20, XP-Pen ACK05, ...

Oh, and for those of you on immutable distros, you can now put .tablet files into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/libwacom

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Toot

Written by Peter Hutterer on 2024-12-05 at 23:39

What is libwacom you didn't ask? Well, let me mansplain anyway: it's C library that provides you with information about graphics tablets that you can't otherwise get from the device itself. Thinks like "is this tablet integrated into a screen" or "does this stylus have an eraser".

Code wise it's a bunch of text files with a C library around those.

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Descendants

Written by Fluchtkapsel on 2024-12-06 at 07:32

@whot Seems like a use case for a tablet description language and an easily discoverable directory where to put such files. Or does it work that way already?

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Written by Peter Hutterer on 2024-12-06 at 08:49

@fluchtkapsel There hasn't been much demand for a special language outside the library API in the last... 13 years (yes, it's an old library) :)

The library parses its own .ini-style files but the format for those is not stable and just an implementation detail.

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Written by Fluchtkapsel on 2024-12-06 at 11:28

@whot I just had the idea that a possibility to just describe the capabilities of a tablet might be nice. Don't view this as a feature request, please. :-)

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