Meeting of digital painting configuration on plasma wayland
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After some discussion with Tyson Tan and on Plasma matrix channel, we found it necessary to have a dedicated meeting about various configurations on digital painting. Mainly, colord-kde porting to qml, and its corresponding component on wayland. Wacomtablet wayland support. And kwin support of tablet. Microsoft pen protocol support. There maybe more. There are some discontinued work from 2019: https://phabricator.kde.org/T11660.

Meeting time is 2PM UTC on october 27th, in plasma matrix channel. If everyone can make it, or we can choose a different time.

hanyoung created this task.Oct 25 2021, 1:36 PM
Deevad added a subscriber: Deevad.Oct 25 2021, 2:00 PM

Thank you for starting this thread.

I'll join the meeting, I also use Plasma for digital painting my webcomic, Pepper&Carrot.

I blog-post install guides about it. But I rarely practised the Wayland territory (for a "lack of features" reason, and technical issues). So, it sounds perfect.

Note that neither @rempt nor @dkazakov are available this week. However, given that both are a little preoccupied with getting Krita 5 ready, perhaps it would be most fruitful to currently have a discussion with artists and discuss what kind of setups and needs they have, before discussing tech...

Note that neither @rempt nor @dkazakov are available this week. However, given that both are a little preoccupied with getting Krita 5 ready, perhaps it would be most fruitful to currently have a discussion with artists and discuss what kind of setups and needs they have, before discussing tech...

I feel like there are many things missing on wayland verses xorg. So we'll have to figure out what is missing, and what has working on going. Also what artists expected to have. That's the intention of the meeting.

I will be joining too. I used to work under wayland, with a functional Gnome 3 environment before migrating to KDE Plasma. I also worked with Linux Wacom project on some tricky bugs so I might be able to provide some useful info.

zzag added a subscriber: zzag.Oct 25 2021, 3:54 PM
apol added a subscriber: apol.Oct 25 2021, 5:01 PM

+1 please ping me, I'll be around.

I did our current KWin Wayland implementation for drawing tablets.

ognarb added a subscriber: ognarb.Oct 25 2021, 7:55 PM

Conclusion:

colors/icc

tablet kcm that allows:

  • button mapping to states (i.e. making some buttons responsible for toggling a tool's type, not letting these button events reach clients)
  • mapping tablets to outputs
  • calibration of tablets into outputs

Others

  • allow higher brightness on active monitor

@apol will work on a new kcm in wayland to replace wacomtablet-kcm.
@hanyoung will ensure colord-kde works under wayland

hanyoung closed this task as Resolved.Oct 29 2021, 2:51 PM

This is marked as resolved but I would also like to be looped in on how the mapping tablets to outputs effort goes as I am writing user-space drivers for a few tablets that get picked up by libinput.