[Development] Removing Wacom support in Qt5

[Shawn Rutledge]

On 6 September 2012 08:48, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 06 September 2012 Sep, marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com wrote:
>> We only had one guy working on it, and he was primarily on OSX. He hadn't work for us for years now, hence why these bugs have been piling up.
>>
>> I think it shouldn't take much for someone who cares and have the HW to get it back up to scratch.
>
> I would have thought that Trolltech/Nokia/Digia would have been able to afford a wacom tablet... They can be had for as little as 90 euros. And maybe even a monoprice one, to be had for as little as 50 dollars. Don't commercial Qt-based applications like Maya, Nuke, Mari or Photoshop Elements also use QTabletEvent?

The problem isn't affording a tablet, it's just putting in the time to
understand how the Windows API for it is supposed to be used, as
opposed to what Qt currently does with it.  If as one of the bugs
says, there is actually a full-screen invisible window just to catch
all the tablet events, I wonder if the API is so clunky that such
hacks are necessary, or just used to be necessary and now we need to
completely rethink it.  If anyone else has looked at the code and can
offer some tips and/or patches that fix the root cause, it would be
appreciated.