> It's nuts that this was and continues to be a high-profile, multi-year effort spawning discussions that end up framing the whole thing as elusive—rather than, you know, a solved problem that is pretty much not even worth mentioning but for the long tradition of poor execution.

That’s what I thought too until I actually started trying to solve the problem. Could you offer a more specific prescription for how you would go about taking the touchpad experience of ChromeOS and getting it shipped in a Linux context, if you were running this project? You seem baffled that this has not been solved yet, which makes me wonder if you know something that we don’t about the specifics of how Google’s source for ChromeOS touchpad could be trivially co-opted?