[Development] Removing Wacom support in Qt5

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thursday 06 September 2012 Sep, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> He's saying that Qt Creator and those other applications don't work on those 
> workstations that have Wacom tablets installed. You know very well that 
> working for you is no guarantee that it works for everyone.

And the converse is true as well, of course.

> Sadly, our current support for tablets is very, very limited. We know it 
> breaks every other release -- since it is never tested before a release, it 
> breaks; then we get bug reports, it gets fixed, and then in the next release, 
> it breaks again.
> 
> I'd prefer if we fix this once and for all. 

I don't consider removing a feature a fix... Even the "hack" that got proposed in those bug reports is better than that.

> Maybe the QPA architecture makes it simpler to keep working. Who knows...

Well, it seems clear that nobody knows :-(. 

> But since I made the suggestion to remove it: if we can't get it tested and 
> get it to work, just disable the support. No code needs to be removed. Just 
> make the loading of the Wacom DLL always fail.

So, basically, QTabletEvent will still exist, but will be useless?

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Boudewijn Rempt
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