[Development] Removing Wacom support in Qt5

[Frank Hemer]

On Sunday 09 September 2012 09:25:20 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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.

You cannot be serious about that. Its not only that some commercial products 
depend on wacom support, but with a growing qml usage, more and more 
applications may need it. Its a definite showstopper for one of my products 
forcing me to stick with qt4 for the time being.

I'm a commercial license owner (hello digia, whats your standpoint?), but my 
resources are limited so I cannot support with active contribution.
But anyway - simply stating that the feature is not supported (it used to be 
supported in the qt4 days and it was never mentioned to be deprecated or 
alike) is imho the very wrong direction.

I could live with proposal (1) or (2) ... but I really want to put weight on 
the importance of wacom support. Please don't forget about the thousands of 
penabled tablets out there ... 

Frank