GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 686730
Wacom calibration tool is difficult to use on pen-and-touch screens
Last modified: 2012-10-24 16:41:06 UTC
It is difficult to properly calibrate devices whose screens are both pen and touch sensitive. One must be careful to keep their hand off the touchscreen in order to calibrate, lest an errant contact be interpreted as intentional click. This makes it extremely challenging to get an accurate calibration since there is nothing to keep the hand (and by extension, the pen) steady. Ideally, the calibration tool should ignore clicks from devices other than the one being calibrated. Alternatively, it may suffice to ignore all clicks more than some maximum distance away from the target's center.
We can easily get the device that generated the event so ignoring the events from other devices is probably the easiest thing to do.
What version of GNOME is that? The calibration should select the appropriate tool in GNOME 3.6 and filter out other devices.
That was git commit 0655443: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/commit/panels/wacom/calibrator/gui_gtk.c?id=06554439b7243aa3625d52ad8fe41ed621d3ac3c
From the version field, I'd say 3.4. Let's reopen if it's still broken in 3.6. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 680114 ***
I missed that bug in my search; good to know its already been addressed.