- Take the Linux Touchpad Experience Poll: https://www.gitclear.com/polls/linux_touchpad_experience
- Become a sponsor on GitHub: https://github.com/gitclear/libinput (GitHub matches every donation up to $5k, so your $5 can become $10)
- Get paid $50/hr to work on libinput: http://archive.is/FGHTT (link to archive of the original article ty danso)
Luckily, this should be relatively simple. Anyone who wants to make this should be looking at the Chromium touchpad code (runs linux, and my Pixelbook touchpad is as good as a macbook touchpad. For example, the touch input filter: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/touch_... )
I think you'd get most of the quality with a kalman filter (A really cool filter that takes unstable input, and corrects it based on probabilities to give very high quality output).
[1] http://douglas.mayle.org/files/synaptics-two-finger-click.di...
(I have not used my touchpad since getting used to a trackpoint, but I vaguely remember using the synaptics driver to get it usable)
Edit: NVM, I read another one of his blog posts where he addresses synaptics and mtrack.
Or go straight here: https://github.com/sponsors/gitclear
I think $50/hr might not be enough. I imagine there are very few devs who could do this correctly, doubling the wage and halving the time would cost the same but probably yield better results. I'm not the one paying tho.