[PATCH libinput 0/24] Tablet support

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Fri May 23 00:04:41 PDT 2014


On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 01:43:10AM +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
[...]

> You make a good point with tilt axes below. I think this at least stands
> true for ABS_PRESSURE, a device with 1024 possible values doesn't
> register 4x as much pressure as a device with 256 values, those are
> rather the "sensibility" of the axis, same to some extent for
> wheel/strip axes I'd say.
> 
> For the others, knowing the units/resolution can be indeed useful
> depending on the context, so the lowest common denominator seems
> input_absinfo.
> 
> And I should add, IMO it would make sense to relate axes together and be
> able to set/apply a transformation matrix on those, it would be nice to
> get tilt to match device orientation (eg. left-handed modes).

good idea. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79106 just so it
doesn't disappear.

Cheers,
   Peter


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