The Mac Driver does support Individual Preferences
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 02, 2005 06:22 AM
There are 2 major things wrong in this article concerning Wacom's MacOS X tablet driver.
1) Each user does have their own driver settings. Ever since driver version 4.7.9, this has been true on the Mac. There where problems early on with networked home accounts, but this has been resolved in the latest drivers.
2) While you do need administrative privileges to install the tablet driver, you can do this from a non admin account on OS X. The administrator needs to come enter their user name and password when asked during install. I just did this to make sure that it was true and it worked.
This is a driver for for a piece of hardware. I don't understand why you think requiring admin privileges to install it is bad. Without admin privileges, how could a managed user get the driver to work for others user on the system? They can't. So I don't understand this complaint.
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The Mac Driver does support Individual Preferences
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 02, 2005 06:22 AM1) Each user does have their own driver settings. Ever since driver version 4.7.9, this has been true on the Mac. There where problems early on with networked home accounts, but this has been resolved in the latest drivers.
2) While you do need administrative privileges to install the tablet driver, you can do this from a non admin account on OS X. The administrator needs to come enter their user name and password when asked during install. I just did this to make sure that it was true and it worked.
This is a driver for for a piece of hardware. I don't understand why you think requiring admin privileges to install it is bad. Without admin privileges, how could a managed user get the driver to work for others user on the system? They can't. So I don't understand this complaint.
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