[Development] Removing Wacom support in Qt5

[Shawn Rutledge]

On 6 September 2012 00:53, Ariel Molina <ariel at edis.mx> wrote:
> There is a really old, and quite long, list of bugs at Qt, take for example:
> https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-9190
>
> Wacom support is broken, it's in fact somewhere between alpha or beta
> state, some tablets work some others dont. In OSX they work pretty
> good, in windows you really suffer. The driver works fine for several
> non-Qt apps (Adobe Suite works just fine)
...
> In the very beggining of this I was asking for a commandline switch
> myapp.exe --wacom or something like a flag Qt::WA_AcceptWacom to keep
> Wacom disabled and we (99.999%) of developers not caring about Wacom
> keep our sanity.
>
> Is it better to remove Wacom for Qt5? what do you think?

I think on Linux the support for tablets and touchscreens is improving
(I and a couple more coworkers have put in some time on that
recently); the problem seems to be just on Windows, right?  Maybe
having the configure script disable it by default on Windows builds
would be a good idea until the bugs are fixed, but I'm not in favor of
removing all wacom support just because of such bugs.  If we did
disable it on Windows though, the tablet would still act like a mouse
anyway, right?