Looks like we need to recognise "UC-LOGIC TWA60" too: see bug #20377. Notable for not having anything other than a make and model number in its name :(

Gah. We need some sort of override for the whitelist/blacklist system to cope with new unrecognised tablets, clearly.

My tablet isn no longer working out of the box.

Hope this helps.

Bus 007 Device 002: ID 5543:0042 UC-Logic Technology Corp. Tablet PF1209

Device " TabletPF1209" has a pressure axis
Skipping " TabletPF1209" (not in the list of known tablets)
Device " TabletPF1209" has a pressure axis
Skipping " TabletPF1209" (not in the list of known tablets)
Device " TabletPF1209" has a pressure axis
Skipping " TabletPF1209" (not in the list of known tablets)

No pressure sensitive devices found.
device change: TabletPF1209 <enum GDK_SOURCE_MOUSE of type GdkInputSource>

This is the exact tablet that I am using (great value!)
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=108&cp_id=10841&cs_id=1084101&p_id=6815&seq=1&format=2

Cheers

Looking at the bug title, this looks like an ongoing thing; I've set it back to Confirmed so we don't accidentally close it or mark it fixed before we've addressed the underlying problems.

Martin: would a combination of good tested heuristics like the ones we have right now, plus user overrides for the (hopefully rare) occasions when the whitelist and blacklist get it wrong strike the right balance? I want it to Just Work out of the box too, and it should for common devices; but given that we're always at the mercy of gtk libs, xorg drivers, and distributors' wacom_drv udev/xorg.conf.d whims, we could do with a simple way of overriding the heuristics some of the time.

I have added Aiptek to the list of known tablets. Please tell if you know of more names that we should add. I'm not happy that we have to maintain a list, neither.

For reference, the list is here:

https://gitorious.org/mypaint/mypaint/blobs/master/gui/application.py#line448

MyPaint is supposed to just work (including pressure) at first startup, not ask the user "this logitech receiver device might be a tablet, do you want to enable it? It may break random things if you do." You start this program to paint, not to read about GTK+ bugs that may or may not affect you.

If you want to make a more friendly way to enable un-detected tablets permanently, for example in the preferences, you're of course welcome to submit a patch. But I think the current way of detecting tablets with whitelist/blacklist is the best we can do given how GTK+ 2.x behaves. (Maybe it will be better once we switch to GTK+ 3.x.)