On Feb 15, 2007, at 7:38 AM, Devon Scott-Tunkin wrote:

it works fine

with the mouse. from what i have researched it has to

do with inkscape (and the gimp) using the older wacom

API as opposed to the newer HID that does not support

rotate. Is there a workaround or fix for this?

Well, the problem probably is in GTK+, not quite Inkscape itself. GTK+ is the widget toolkit that Inkscape and the gimp are both built on top of.

I don't happen to know a work-around off-hand, but I do know this is something people would like to help fix. In fact, we were just discussing this last weekend at the Linux conference in Southern California.

The main problem is that none of the developers I know of have such hardware. However, if you are interested in working together some people should be able to come up with various things to try.