some hope for Linux tablet users

[ivan louette]

Very interesting project indeed !

However yesterday I installed my first 0.46 Devel version of Inkscape on Ubuntu and I was extremely surprized to see that pressure sensitivity of my simple Wacom Graphire 3 stylus was reckognised by the calligraphy tool without installing any other wacom driver than the one included by default in Kubuntu 8.10 ! There was a long time I didn't play with the win 32 devel snapshots because I lack of time at the moment (I did a lot of work on filters), but the latest win snapshot I downloaded yesterday too didn't reckognise my tablet and I was even unable to draw or to do anything with it.

Inkscape and Linux developpers community are extremely volunteer and fast.

kindly

ivan

[handrawn]

confirm that on the win 32 dev snapshot Ivan - been that way since before Christmas as I recall
[my tablet is a graphire]

[ivan louette]

confirm that on the win 32 dev snapshot Ivan - been that way since before Christmas as I recall
[my tablet is a graphire]

However in win 32 you can draw with your mouse ! And I didn't know it before another user said it some days ago on the french Linuxgraphics.org forum...

kindly,
ivan

[handrawn]

ha yes

[ivan louette]

ha yes :d

:d

[ivan louette]

My Graphire 3 pressure sensitivity works also in Gimp without installing any driver.

Kubuntu 8.10 (KDE 4.1.4 at the moment)

ivan

[geminiguy]

The drivers for the more popular brands of tablets have been worked out on Linux... but the lesser known brands do not.
When I hook up my Genius Mousepen... It is no more than a fancy mouse, and when I use it... I have to go back and alter each stroke manually, which becomes a very arduous and task. That is why I think this project has so much potential... hopefully to be able to detect any pressure sensitive device and utilize it's features.
I still have yet to try out my tablet on this app.. maybe I will get some time later tonight.