Ideally, couldn't the install script for xserver-input-wacom add the necessary stuff to xorg.conf itself?
I imagine that would lead to really ugly xorg configuration files, though, as we see with the old Screens & Graphics tool. I guess what we need is a magical, open-ended and centralized tool for configuring xorg.conf that everyone (including the end user) uses. Would help if this wasn't a single big file... Bye, -Dylan On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please anybody, don't take this e-mail personally. I just want to point > out an example where a not-so-well-tought decision has caused troubles > to a niche of users who are too few to get listened to. I love you all > and hardy is really pretty. I report this story here just because I > think it has something to teach to every ubuntu developer. > > Regarding the wacom enabled/disabled by default issues, by googling > better, I found the culprit: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wacom-tools/+bug/42553 > > The funny thing is that the title is the same as the one of my previous > thread in this mailing list, replacing "disabled" with "enabled" by > default! > > A lot of people wanted it disabled because kde applications gave errors > at startup, and the log file in their home directory became huge. This > is a very good reason, and having the configuration in xorg was really > strange given that few people have tablet PCs. > > Then, Bryce Harrington posted on the bug report more or less the same > patch to dexconf that I posted here: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/188787 > > and then Bryce himself *disabled* wacom setup *without* using his own > patch to conditionally re-enable the setup in xorg > whenever /dev/input/wacom exists. I can't know why. My patch could have > been Bryce's patch since 2007-06-13, and wacom would have been not > broken in gutsy. > > There is no apparent reason for this choice, that was just a quick > decision to close the bug. In one of the comments therein I even read > "how many people use tabletPCs with ubuntu anyway?" - enough it seems to > have some 30 subscribers for this long standing issue that was closed in > feisty: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wacom-tools/+bug/40473 > > In any case, have a good night and a good release, and thanks for the > overall very good work from release to release. It seems that I can give > an ubuntu cd to everybody and make them happy (I am known as the ubuntu > guy in my department and everybody talks to me about how beatiful they > find their new ubuntu and thank me for helping them in set up), but I am > doomed to see my own laptop more and more broken in new releases it > seems :) > > Vincenzo > > > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
