Bug 477898

Summary: Ability to switch to relative mode for graphic tablet
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Raghavendra kamath <raghu>
Component: kcm_tabletAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: ASSIGNED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: aleixpol, capitalex, fanzhuyifan, nate, sebi.loew
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Raghavendra kamath 2023-12-02 08:37:58 UTC 
SUMMARY
Tablets are by default operated under absolute mode where the point on the tablet is mapped to the point on the screen. There is one more mode where the tablets behaves like a mouse. It is called relative mode. In this mode the point on the tablet is not matched to the point on the screen, if you lift the pen and start from a different position the cursor will continue to move from the existing position. This is like how touchpads work. 

Some artists like to use this mode. Wacom calls this the mouse mode in their tablet settings application on Microsoft windows.

You can also check the gnome documentation for this feature to better understand it - https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/wacom-mode.html.en

This mode was present in the wacom tablet kcm  in X11 due to the switch to wayland, this feature is not implemented in the new kcm. To bring graphic tablet experience on wayland on par to X11, I request this mode to added back the new tablet kcm.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open tablet kcm on wayland and try to set the relative mode for the tablet
Comment 1 sebi.loew 2024-01-04 21:30:02 UTC 
I switched to a graphics tablet as a mouse replacement, because of bad wrist pain in my hand, even with an ergonomic mouse.
Sadly, without the relative input mode I can't use it under linux.
I hope someone can implement this for wayland, because soon with fedora there is no X11 anymore and I also love using wayland for my workflow.

Thanks a lot for all the awesome work!
Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2024-01-06 20:48:38 UTC 
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/4852
Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2024-01-06 20:49:42 UTC 
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/1963
Comment 4 duha.bugs 2024-03-07 19:42:47 UTC 
*** Bug 482762 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***