Summary: | Wacom tablet (CTH-460) with xsetwacom set to relative (or anything non-default) causes the stylus to quit working within the canvas area in Krita. | ||
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Product: | [Applications] krita | Reporter: | databin |
Component: | Tablets (tablet issues are only very rarely bugs in Krita!) | Assignee: | Krita Bugs <krita-bugs-null> |
Status: | RESOLVED LATER | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | admin, bugs, christer.stenbrenden, databin, dimula73, ghevan, halla, kde, krita-bugs-null, lukast.dev, nagpal.sahil01, spottedsky, stuartmd, sven.langkamp |
Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
Version: | 2.8.1 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Other | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
databin
2014-12-20 18:17:14 UTC
In case it is useful for others trying to reproduce this bug, the way I set my tablet to relative is by the following command in a terminal: xsetwacom --set "Wacom BambooPT 2FG 4x5 Pen stylus" mode Relative See Original Post for hardware information about my tablet. Yes, we don't support relative mode for tablets at the moment. I don't think we've currently any plans to actually go and implement that support either, I'm afraid. Changing the pressure curve without changing the settings from absolute to relative should be fine, though. Thank you for the response. I have just double checked and it does appear that pressure settings using xsetwacom does allow Krita to function as it should as long as the mode is set to absolute for the tablet. About marking this thread: Your response suggests that this should be marked as something like "confirmed but not a bug" or something that conveys this. Should this be marked as "resolved" instead? Questions: Is there a way to at least get Krita to detect if relative mode is set on a device and let the user know that such a feature is not implemented? Possibly also suggesting they set the tablet to absolute mode? Constructive Comment: I can understand the decision to not implement the relative mode as that mode isn't very useful on touchscreen displays such as the Cintiq line from Wacom, and most professional users will have some form of a touchscreen display. However, it may be the case that this decision might at the very least make it a bit more difficult for budding artists such as children and other societal groups who can't afford such devices to reach their professional aspirations. Krita is becoming an amazing open source project that really looks good and this will draw a lot of attention to it in the coming years. I am hopeful that such attention will draw more support and allow for features that make it more accessible to those who are just starting out. Well... I don't want to close the bug because, one day, we will have to implement support for relative mode. _If_ Qt5's tablet support is up to scratch, that could be pretty simple. Otherwise it might be really hard :-(. I like the idea of giving users a warning, but I'm not sure how to do that right now -- I have to admit, my mind currently is full with thinking of ways of making saving custom keyboard shortcuts work... *** Bug 341396 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** We probably can check for this again once we've ported to Qt5. |