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Graphics tablets configuration in GNOME

I was actually going to blog on Novacut, but thought better of it. I think there’s enough tension growing already :) Instead I’d like to draw your attention to planned graphic tablets configuration tool for GNOME 3. It needs some work to get included upstream.

There already is some design/UX work done by Jimmac, with some useful comments from Hylke Bons to take into consideration.

What’s more important, there already is real code by Peter Hutterer that basically lacks calibration part. So all it needs is someone (yes, jonnor, I’m looking at you) willing to take existing code and add few missing things.

Then we can all make artsy types much happier users of GNOME. Because you can’t possibly dive into matrix calculation and come out a happy (or sane) person :)

Catching up on reading

Packt Publishing released three libre graphics related books in a row in December: “Inkscape 0.48 Essentials for Web Designers” by Bethany Hiitola, “Scribus 1.3.5 beginner’s guide” by Cedric Gemy and “Blender 2.5 Lighting and Rendering” by Aaron W. Powell. I had the first one almost immediately after release (but utterly lacked time to read) and got the second just now. Since all Cedric’s previous books were in French which I don’t speak, I’m really curious what Cedric came up with, so the Scribus book gets priority :)

Scribus 1.3.5 beginner's guide

Now, one question is how many GIMP books we’ll see this year. I know just one so far.