Implement kinetic / inertial scrolling in linux

[githubuser6000]

Currently, on linux,a flick with two fingers to scroll stops as soon as one lifts their finger off the trackpad. This is not the case with other applications, such as firefox. This is a request to add such a feature to vscode :pray: it is such a QoL improvement.

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[Piroro-hs]

Already implemented in chromium? https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/29730 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=763791

[tokyo4j]

I noticed wheel event is stopped when preventDefault() is called or when there's no space to scroll on Linux Chromium, whereas wheel event is triggered regardless of preventDefault() or space left on Windows. I guess that's why kinetic scrolling works in webviews (like release note), while it doesn't in code editor where builtin scrolling behavior is overwritten and emulated.

For preventDefault(), this commit might be related: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/c996f218c7efa8124a67b30e199bfb78f010954f

[kkimdev]

Just wanted to say that this small feature would greatly improve developer experience.

[ubarilan]

Definitely need this feature, would be great for QoL!

[adityainduraj]

Just wanted to ask if there has been any progress on this issue?

[da-the-dev]

Commenting for engagement! I work with a lot of big Jupyter notebooks, and having inertial scrolling would help tremendously