Hutterer: GNOME tablet support papercut fixes

[Posted June 26, 2024 by jzb]

Peter Hutterer has written a summary of "papercut fixes" for GNOME tablet support that are planned to ship with GNOME 47.

If you're an avid tablet user, you may have multiple stylus tools - but it's also likely that you have multiple tools of the same type which makes differentiating them in the GUI hard. Which is why they're highlighted now - if you bring the tool into proximity, the matching image is highlighted to make it easier to know which stylus you're about to configure. Oh, and in the process we added a new SVG for AES styli too to make the picture look more like the actual physical tool. The <blink> tag may no longer be cool but at least we can disco our way through the stylus configuration now.

on-screen keyboard

Posted Jun 26, 2024 17:51 UTC (Wed) by rgb (subscriber, #57129) [Link] (3 responses)

I'm using Gnome on Fedora on my Surface Go 2 tablet. It works fine in general, but the on-screen keyboard needs some attention. The backspace key deletes in Firefox form entries like this one only every second character. Every other character gets selected only. The keyboard also has a very noticeable input lack in general.

on-screen keyboard

Posted Jun 27, 2024 7:16 UTC (Thu) by whot (subscriber, #50317) [Link]

lwn comments don't really work as issue tracker, you're better off filing bugs with the upstream project because this one here will just get lost.

on-screen keyboard

Posted Jun 27, 2024 10:56 UTC (Thu) by qtwyeuritoiy (subscriber, #126472) [Link]

FWIW the issue has been reported both to GNOME and Firefox. GNOME thinks it's a Firefox problem and Firefox hasn't given it much love until recently.

on-screen keyboard

Posted Jun 27, 2024 16:06 UTC (Thu) by robclark (subscriber, #74945) [Link]

jfyi, I think Peter was talking about a different sort of tablet.. ie. things like https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-tablets