tablet: Add pad support to the tablet protocol
The pad's interface is similar to the tool interface, a client is notified of the pad after the tablet_added event. The pad has three functionalities: buttons, rings and strips. Buttons are fairly straightforward, rings and strips are separate interfaces with pointer-axis-like source/value/frame events. The two interfaces are effectively identical but for the actual value they send (degrees vs normalized position). Buttons are sequentially indexed starting with zero, unlike other protocols where a linux/input.h-style semantic event code is used. Since we expect all buttons to have client-specific functionality, an additional event tells the client when a given button index is not available, usually because the compositor assignes some function to it (e.g. mode switching, see below). Specific to the pad device is the set_feedback request which enables a client to set a user-defined string to display for an OSD on the current mappings. This request is available for buttons, rings and strips. Finally, the pad supports groups, effectively sets of button/ring/strip configurations. Those groups may have multiple modes each, so that users/clients may map several actions to a single element. Signed-off-by: Carlos Garnacho <carlosg@gnome.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> Reviewed-by: Jason Gerecke <jason.gerecke@wacom.com> Reviewed-by: Bryce Harrington <bryce@osg.samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
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