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Re: Wacom graphics tablet mini-review (Ubuntu 8.10)

To: Patrick Moon <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Wacom graphics tablet mini-review (Ubuntu 8.10)
From: Eric Anopolsky <erpo41@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:30:45 -0700
It probably depends on experience. I'm sure my tablet is working
perfectly, but it's conflicting with my mouse-trained behavior.

When I'm moving the cursor and my mouse gets close to the edge of my
desk, I pick it up and set it down in the middle of the clear area. Then
I continue moving my mouse to move the cursor.

But when I try that with a tablet, the cursor jumps to the middle of the
screen as soon as I set the pen down in the middle of the tablet. If I
want to access the corners of my screen, I have to touch the corners of
my device. It's taking some time to get used to it.

Cheers,
Eric


On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 10:08 -0800, Patrick Moon wrote:
> We also have one and while it's fun to pay with it was very finicky in 
> how you held it.  Out of 4 people, 1 picked it up and went to 
> town...everyone else fought with it to draw at times.  But I only have 
> the one so it could be defective.  We ran it windows and Linux so it 
> isn't just a Linux issue either.
> 
> Cheers,
> Patrick
> 
> Alan Richmond wrote:
> > Eric, thanks for the great review!  I've been considering getting a tablet 
> > for 
> > my wife for Christmas and was favoring the Wacoms because of the price and 
> > Linux support.  The lack of pressure sensitivity under Linux is 
> > dissapointing, I was hoping to be able to borrow it occasionally.  I wonder 
> > if it's just the newer Bamboo, Ubuntu or Ubuntu's Gimp config that isn't 
> > right?  It looks like it used to work. [1]  My wife uses Windows though, so 
> > she would be able to made full use of its features.
> >
> > Thanks again, very timely!
> >
> > -Alan
> >
> > [1] http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/gimp
> >
> >
> >   
> 

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