> Well, because it's true: many of the repositories are named after "Wacom". It's a historical legacy on GNU/Linux. It's also a decade-long debate that these repos should be renamed differently.
If the project being named after Wacom is actively causing other companies to not contribute because they believe it’s a Wacom lead project and they’d be helping a competitor, I don’t understand why this is even a debate vs. just changing the name to something vendor neutral.
burnte 38 minutes ago [-]
And it's been a decade long argument? Sounds like someone is just emotionally attached to something not changing. Those are the hardest problems to solve.
myrmidon 4 minutes ago [-]
Not necessarily.
The technical people managing the repos might just be opposed to name changing in general (seeing how a boatload of links, references, documentation would require updating, some of which you don't even control), and meanwhile those people might feel the "misbranding" drawbacks much less (if at all).
KaiserPro 33 minutes ago [-]
Name changes are controversial. Nothing gets nerds going more than changing a project name so companies work better with OSS.
inigyou 6 minutes ago [-]
Yet name changes happen easily when legally forced. Wireshark, MariaDB, and LibreOffice.
Onavo 31 minutes ago [-]
main vs master
inigyou 7 minutes ago [-]
personally my default branch is called dominatrix, just to annoy the kind of person who argues about master
wiether 6 minutes ago [-]
The issue has always been with the reasons invoked to make the change
Otherwise it would have been smoother
otikik 4 minutes ago [-]
mainster
otikik 39 minutes ago [-]
Yes. It feels like the article was leading towards a reason for not doing that, but then suddenly it just ends.
abdullahkhalids 3 minutes ago [-]
Besides Wacom, which tablets would you recommend as good quality?
AlienRobot 44 seconds ago [-]
One thing I miss from Windows is the tablet driver GUI. "cinnamon-settings wacom" doesn't let me map buttons to keys (important for software like FireAlpaca, which pans with the space key instead of supporting the middle mouse button like everybody else in the planet), and it also doesn't let me remap the tablet area to arbitrary screen coordinates. These are things I could do on Windows that I can't do through the GUI.
I wrote a Python script to do it using xsetwacom, but I don't know if it would work for anybody else. I don't know if xsetwacom is only for wacom tablets, or if xsetwacom is only for X11 (I'm not on Wayland yet).
If the project being named after Wacom is actively causing other companies to not contribute because they believe it’s a Wacom lead project and they’d be helping a competitor, I don’t understand why this is even a debate vs. just changing the name to something vendor neutral.
The technical people managing the repos might just be opposed to name changing in general (seeing how a boatload of links, references, documentation would require updating, some of which you don't even control), and meanwhile those people might feel the "misbranding" drawbacks much less (if at all).
Otherwise it would have been smoother
I wrote a Python script to do it using xsetwacom, but I don't know if it would work for anybody else. I don't know if xsetwacom is only for wacom tablets, or if xsetwacom is only for X11 (I'm not on Wayland yet).