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[Duncan McGreggor <duncan.mcgreggor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: Re: [Private-sparsha-dev] tablets and auto-rotation
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:45:18 -0400
From: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Alberto Milone <alberto.milone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Rick Spencer <rick.spencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,        Bryce Harrington
<bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,        "Duncan M. McGreggor"
<duncan.mcgreggor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,        Sparsha Dev
<private-sparsha-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 15:38 +0200, Alberto Milone wrote:
> I couldn't attend the UDS but I know that Federico Mena Quintero (at
> Novell) was working on this in a separate branch of the
> gnome-settings-daemon but he hasn't committed anything upstream yet (I
> guess he's focusing on different projects):
>
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/log/?h=randr-rotate-wacom-tablet
>
> As Rafi said, this solution also involves setting a gconf key to tell
> the daemon whether we want it to rotate input devices or not when
> screens are rotated.
>
> Currently Federico's code makes use of the xsetwacom tool instead of
> using Xinput (which is what we need). I'm very familiar with the
> gnome-settings-daemon code and, if there's enough interest at
> Canonical, I'm available to work on it but I don't own any Ntrig
> touchscreen and I can't use my Stantum tablet because it doesn't work
> with xinput Calibration.

I'll second this approach. I believe this is the correct place to fix
the issue. I'll let Duncan handle how to pour resources into this, but
this looks promising.

-- Chase