[Development] Removing Wacom support in Qt5

[Thiago Macieira]

On sábado, 8 de setembro de 2012 21.25.21, Ariel Molina R. wrote:
> > 3. So, you propose to remove tablet support in Qt 5.
> 
> I proposed on the IRC channel two options and a third one appeared:
> 1) Qt::WA_AcceptWacom flag, to be used explicitly to get wacom events
> 2) --enable-wacom on the commandline, same idea
> 3) While talking to Thiago, he proposed to directly drop that
> unhealthy wacom code
> 
> I support "3"  (but hey, i know im nobody)  and I know 1,2 would work
> (i proposed them). The logic to remove the code is: it breaks a lot,
> it's hacky, it bites you even when not having a wacom plugged, really
> none truly cares that much and it's now affecting the very core tools
> of Qt (QtCreator and the puppet) so disable/remove it, then IF
> someone really cares, they (expecting to be a bunch of people) will
> appear and fix the code. Thiago said something like: none will appear
> to do that job, so remove it. I was told to make the request in the
> mailing list, so I did 'cause this bug affects me quite roughly (and
> as I said it will afect more and more people as time passes and Quick
> becomes common).

Note that this also applies for Qt 4.8. If the support is broken there and 
causing issues like Ariel is describing, it's definitely a P1 that needs fixing. 
If we can't muster the knowledge of how to fix it properly, we should disable.

Now, it appears that in Qt 5, the support is already non-existent. So there's 
nothing we need to do now.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
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