Raphael Quinet wrote: > I tested this patch yesterday with my Wacom ArtPad II and as I > expected, it had no effect. The problem with the ArtPad II (at least > with the XFree86 driver) is that it generates proximity in/out events > that switch between the pen and the eraser when the pen is down and > the side button is pressed. This causes the Gimp to switch to a > different tool and this messes up the undo stack, among other things. > Since this ArtPad II bug shadows the GTK+ bug that you have fixed with > your patch, I have not seen any changes in the Gimp or any other > application that I tested. I did a grep on all gdk_pointer_grab() in gimp/app; not one call requests proximity events during grabs, so even if XFree86 has reason to generate them, they will be supressed on the X server side during grab periods. But you are seeing them in the event stream to your Gimp image window? -- strange... (deep ponder mode) I have XFree86 on the laptop, if I can grab an older ArtPad II from somewhere... > More testing is needed, by people who have another type of tablet. Agreed. One or two is not sufficient, and patch authors suffer from hubris ;) > Your patch looks good and should probably go into gtk-1.2.9 if it does > not break anything (alas, I cannot test this). If this fixes #10498 > for everybody except the ArtPad II users, then it may be better to > close #10498 and open a new bug report that deals with the ArtPad II. > What do you think? I received a prompt reply from Owen Taylor following my submission of GTK+ bug report #32617, however, there is not complete buy-in from him that it is a GTK problem. See http://bugs.gnome.org/db/32/32617.html. (My response to his feedback is not posted yet: 21:43 EST (-5.00)) Thank you for the report. Not too many are testing this, which gives rise to an old saying: There are two kinds of software. 1. The kind everybody hates 2. The kind nobody uses. Could it be that actually activating X Input is so frustrating that people do not use it? Is core-pointer emulation mode the typically comfortable way to use a tablet with the Gimp? Be good, be well Garry
