why not just "Tablet" ?

Tablet are a different thing to most people. Really we shouldn't be showing external hardware you don't have but we need a new settings design for that.

"Drawing Tablet" ?

Seems weird to have a branded panel in control-center.  Aren't there non-wacom tablets that work with the panel/libwacom, too, anyway? (nTrig something or something?)

most of the tablets are wacom branded. There are a few Waltop tablets that are apparently identical and a few Fujitsu serial tablets that speak wacom's ISDV4 serial protocol. At least one N-Trig device seems to match too. There are other (cheaper) tablets that are handled by evdev because they don't support the same feature set.

Done in master.

I still think it's really weird for a user to plug in their fancy waltop q pad (or whatever) and then have to go to a panel named Wacom Tablet.

Anyway, last I'm going to talk about it, i'm not going keep arguing about it.

Ray, we can't win here, not right now anyway.

It's equally bad for a user to plug in their new Medion/Genius/etc. tablet and have "Graphics tablet" claim that no tablet is connected (these use evdev, not the wacom driver). I'd even argue that's worse than having a different brand name.

The solution is to either make the wacom driver support all tablets, or make the config panel support evdev tablets too.

Thanks for shortening the name, that would improve the control panel!

Still I'd like to mention that I think "Graphics Tablet" is ok when the applet itself mentions that only Wacom tablets (and, perhaps, a number of others) are supported.
'Wacom' is not a commonly known word, and that can be slightly disturbing in the overview. The purpose of this label is to distinguish it from other control panel applets, and for that purpose "Graphics Tablet" is clear.

Thought it was worth mentioning this.