Wacom UI highly insufficient

Bug #1735216 reported by Christopher Barrington-Leigh
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

I've been asked to post a bug (feature request?) here (https://askubuntu.com/questions/980892/xsetwacom-wont-find-wacom-tablet-under-17-10-but-did-with-17-04-multiple-cur) on the following grounds:

 The UI offered in Wayland for controlling a graphics tablet (such as my Wacom Bamboo Touch on a Thinkpad T450s under Ubuntu 17.10) is nowhere near a replacement for xsetwacom's functionality:
This tablet has both touch and a stylus. Wayland seems to know that.

 (1) a UI is never a replacement for a CLI. I have scripts which controlled the tablet under X11, e.g. to turn touch on and off. Now I cannot use Wayland because even if the UI was fixed, my scripts won't work.

 (2) Wayland UI does not offer option to turn touch off

 (3) Wayland UI does not offer option to rotate the pad

 (4) Mapping the tablet (touch) to a single monitor does not work (it still spans both my monitors)

 (5) Mapping the tablet (touch) to absolute coordinates does not work (it is still relative)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.26.2-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-18.21-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Nov 29 11:31:24 2017
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-11-18 (11 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Christopher Barrington-Leigh (cpbl) wrote :
description: updated
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report, those issues are upstream ones and should be reported on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues

Wayland is also not default in Ubuntu post 17.10

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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