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  • ndiddy57 minutes ago
    &gt; Well, because it&#x27;s true: many of the repositories are named after &quot;Wacom&quot;. It&#x27;s a historical legacy on GNU&#x2F;Linux. It&#x27;s also a decade-long debate that these repos should be renamed differently.<p>If the project being named after Wacom is actively causing other companies to not contribute because they believe it’s a Wacom lead project and they’d be helping a competitor, I don’t understand why this is even a debate vs. just changing the name to something vendor neutral.
    • burnte52 minutes ago
      And it&#x27;s been a decade long argument? Sounds like someone is just emotionally attached to something not changing. Those are the hardest problems to solve.
      • myrmidon17 minutes ago
        Not necessarily.<p>The technical people managing the repos might just be opposed to name changing in general (seeing how a boatload of links, references, documentation would require updating, some of which you don&#x27;t even control), and meanwhile those people might feel the &quot;misbranding&quot; drawbacks much less (if at all).
      • KaiserPro47 minutes ago
        Name changes are controversial. Nothing gets nerds going more than changing a project name so companies work better with OSS.
        • MomsAVoxell7 minutes ago
          True nerds name things properly in the first place. The liberal use of -wacom throughout project names and repositories is a consequence of the Wacom itch being scratched - and then that scratch becoming the base upon which Wacoms&#x27; competitors can participate. A true nerd would&#x27;ve skipped including the brand in a directory name, in the first place .. I bet these drivers started off being written by graphics designers, not nerds.
        • __mharrison__12 minutes ago
          Second hardest thing in CS besides cache invalidation and off by one errors....
        • inigyou20 minutes ago
          Yet name changes happen easily when legally forced. Wireshark, MariaDB, and LibreOffice.
        • Onavo44 minutes ago
          main vs master
          • inigyou20 minutes ago
            personally my default branch is called dominatrix, just to annoy the kind of person who argues about master
            • egypturnash4 minutes ago
              Do you call all your subsidiary branches “paypigs”?
          • wiether20 minutes ago
            The issue has always been with the reasons invoked to make the change<p>Otherwise it would have been smoother
          • otikik18 minutes ago
            mainster
    • MomsAVoxell11 minutes ago
      Its most likely a debate because making such a major refactoring effort is actually a heavy work load, there are lots of bits and pieces to tie together and cut out and so on, and the folks capable of shepherding this change through all the parties out into the distro&#x27;s are already underpaid&#x2F;under-appreciated too much as it is ..<p>Hopefully, this situation will get some traction with a bit of noise about it, and the distros can actually put some effort into handling the rename - or maybe a hero will arise in the midst of all the fuss, who just does the full renaming properly, tested, and so on - in a fashion that it simply can&#x27;t be ignored.<p>It&#x27;s definitely an interesting thing to see this happening, anyway. Open Source has many, many troublesome facets when it comes to fairness and equity, but it also has a lot of bright, shining moments. The fact that the technical ability to build these drivers is already a given, and really the thing holding everything back is just the corporate brand obsession, is kind of hilarious though, also.<p>Duh, <i>you own your competitor</i> by pushing your tech into their brand-space, dummies. This is an <i>opportunity</i> for brands-not-Wacom to eat Wacoms lunch in a delightfully technologically significant way - but, alas, the brand cult reared its maw, instead...
    • otikik52 minutes ago
      Yes. It feels like the article was leading towards a reason for not doing that, but then suddenly it just ends.
  • egypturnash5 minutes ago
    It’s not like they collaborate on closed-source drivers either. If you have two different brands of tablets in your life then you get to deal with weird bugs from their drivers fighting. And if you’re on Windows they may fight with MS’ attempt at default drivers, too.
  • fouc27 minutes ago
    fork and rename the <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linuxwacom&#x2F;wacom-hid-descriptors" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linuxwacom&#x2F;wacom-hid-descriptors</a> project, strip all wacom references. then share w&#x2F; the other tablet brands. problem solved.
    • __mharrison__11 minutes ago
      Name it something really confusing like... Linuxtablet
      • inigyou2 minutes ago
        or Drawing Tablet Drivers for Linux<p>but open source will never have such sensible names. It&#x27;ll probably be called something like Ujagu Flemble or Bananahead.
  • abdullahkhalids16 minutes ago
    Besides Wacom, which tablets would you recommend as good quality?
  • AlienRobot14 minutes ago
    One thing I miss from Windows is the tablet driver GUI. &quot;cinnamon-settings wacom&quot; doesn&#x27;t let me map buttons to keys (important for software like FireAlpaca, which pans with the space key instead of supporting the middle mouse button like everybody else in the planet), and it also doesn&#x27;t let me remap the tablet area to arbitrary screen coordinates. These are things I could do on Windows that I can&#x27;t do through the GUI.<p>I wrote a Python script to do it using xsetwacom, but I don&#x27;t know if it would work for anybody else. I don&#x27;t know if xsetwacom is only for wacom tablets, or if xsetwacom is only for X11 (I&#x27;m not on Wayland yet).