On Sunday 09 September 2012 11:19:41 Thiago Macieira wrote: > On domingo, 9 de setembro de 2012 10.55.10, Frank Hemer wrote: > > > Note that this also applies for Qt 4.8. If the support is broken there > > > and > > > causing issues like Ariel is describing, it's definitely a P1 that needs > > > fixing. If we can't muster the knowledge of how to fix it properly, we > > > should disable. > > > > > > Now, it appears that in Qt 5, the support is already non-existent. So > > > there's nothing we need to do now. > > > > You cannot be serious about that. Its not only that some commercial > > products depend on wacom support, but with a growing qml usage, more and > > more applications may need it. Its a definite showstopper for one of my > > products forcing me to stick with qt4 for the time being. > > What were you referring to when you said "you cannot be serious about that"?
I refer to the very last part of your statement, citing: 'So there's nothing we need to do now.' > If you meant my proposal to disable in Qt 4, then let me explain: the bugs > that Ariel is reporting are definitely P1. From past history, we know that > Wacom support breaks every other release. We need to do something about it. > Preferably, it should be fixing it once and for all. The other extreme is to > disable it completely. > > A middle-ground is to figure out what is different from Ariel's scenario, > maybe blacklisting some driver versions or device versions or something. > > If you meant that the Qt 5 support is non-existent, I was serious. It's a > fact and I wasn't the one who reported it. All of the input method, pointer > and window management systems were rewritten for Qt 5 and, apparently, > Wacom support on Windows wasn't re-added yet. I fully understood. But its a showstopper for porting to qt5. I actually expected some more people to step up ... up to now I didn't realize that wacom support has been removed thus I expect to be not the only one who didn't yet realize. > > I'm a commercial license owner (hello digia, whats your standpoint?), but > > my resources are limited so I cannot support with active contribution. > > But anyway - simply stating that the feature is not supported (it used to > > be supported in the qt4 days and it was never mentioned to be deprecated > > or alike) is imho the very wrong direction. > > The feature doesn't *exist*. We can't support code that isn't there. > > We need someone to write it again. Someone who understands that code. > Hopefully, it should be properly integrated into the QPA input system so > that it doesn't break as often as the Qt 4 solution did. No doubt about that. Still please understand that I feel this issue might be of more importance than it appears right now - once again referring to the increasing importance of tablets and alike. Frank _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
