Since it is a feature request,marking it as Untriaged to get more inputs from dev.
Thanks..!

+1,+1 , surprised there aren't more requests for this.

Yeah this would be a big QOL improvement, and as more distros move towards libinput more users will be effected

This would be nice along with pinch-to-zoom functioning as it does on ChromeOS and MacOS with libinput touchpads

Yes please! This is the primary thing which makes my mac still feel smooth and it's a shame it's not implemented for linux yet.

I would seriously like this to be implemented as well. The kinetic scrolling in nautilus and other tools is incredibly nice. Moving to Chromium without it feels like stepping back a couple of years in terms of usability.

Kinetic scrolling really helps add natural movement to the way we are (now) used to interacting with long vertical panes in software. This is especially necessary on the web with pages typically being vertically quite long. This is especially true with "infinite scrolling" being prevalent these days.

This is one thing that I notice most when moving back and forth between and mac and linux (ubuntu 18.04 in my case).

Please please please can someone implement this. I can't believe how long I tried to sort this before realising that it is something that needs to be implemented at application level.

Integrate libinput is good idea to improve linux input on touchpad. We can also support pinch zoom.

- https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/gestures.html#gestures
- https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures

kinetic scrolling on linux would be very nice.

I use Arch Linux running Gnome 3.30.2 and libinput 1.12.3 on my laptop with touchscreen.

Under X11 session:
kinetic scrolling works with the touch screen but it does not with the touchpad.
Under Wayland session: kinetic scrolling does not work with either touch screen  or touchpad.

Another vote for this! Agree wholeheartedly with the user who said that it is the primary thing that makes my mac feel more smooth than my linux machine

Also, when I use the touchscreen on my linux laptop, I do get kinetic scrolling. If I'm correct in assuming that is going through libinput as well, could there be some existing code that would easily be repurposed for the touchpad?

Definitely support this. On wayland not even xinput2 "smooth" scrolling works on wayland, even on a trackpad (macbookair7,1) on Ubuntu 18.04, scrolling is not only not kinetic, but also scrolls like a clickwell. On firefox, kinetic scrolling is not implemented yet either on wayland, but at least scrolling is pixel-by-pixel (as expected on a trackpad)

This would be a big usability improvement.

Just for claryfing: this isn't really about libinput, it's just that libinput doesn't implement it in the driver like older drivers used to, relying on clients to handle it themselves instead. It's very likely that some kind of gesture abstraction that it used for touchscreens or touchpads on macOS could be reused there.