With big OEMs like Dell and Lenovo finally offering laptops with Linux preinstalled, is there any chance one of them could put in the investment required to solve this once and for all?
My XPS 13 has a wonderful touchpad out-of-the-box, one config line and natural scroll works (think you can enable it in settings on a stock Ubuntu install though).
Thinkpad is also adequate for me for basic pointing and two-finger scrolling. But I still miss the pinch to zoom feature. Also, natural scroll is nice, but it turns on for everything and it shouldn't imho. For example with natural scrolling enabled the gnome speaker icon requires scrolling up to decrease volume and down to increase, which doesn't really make sense to me.