Comment 11 for bug 217182

This is still an issue in Karmic. It's quite fundamental in that the "rotate" option in gnome-control-centre is pretty much useless without rotating the tablet as well. Whilst it's possible to rotate the tablet via manual methods, on the command line, I don't think this is acceptable. A new user would likely rotate the desktop as per the control center dialog, and then find the pen is all over the place.