What would be your ideal keyboard?

[vicz]

The problem is that while vi may well do without all those extra keys, it's all those other programs out there that rely on them.

True. This is one of the reasons why the HHKB is not entirely satisfactory to me. I don't need arrows and function keys that often (vim, bash and Firefox are where I spend most of my time, and there are vi modes for bash and Firefox), but there are some programs where arrow and function keys are often used, and I don't want to keep a finger on the "Fn" key. If I enjoyed holding down modifier keys all the time, I'd use Emacs.

[hasu]

noctua,
nice keyboard and trackball setup!
Is there more photos and writeup about your keyboard anywhere?

I am planning to build my keyboard with cherry switches and AVR as a controller. Designing PCB with kicad will be my first step now.

for last ergonomic adjustments the experimental test
phase of my ideal keyboard is still running..

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(It is rumored that normal keyboard layouts and qwerty user are outdated.. :becky:)

[noctua]

For the moment it's not final finished, the integration of the trackball in the centrum is fiddly..
it will be a tight squeeze. It is an compact design and i don't want it to "overload" because
the thumb and the index finger has already enough to do..

I use this board now since 6 months, and i have totally forgotten my shiny
commercial keyboard ;-)

You may be suprised but i have used an plain eding-pen before i have
etched the PCB.. after an second or third review i will use of course
an more professional method..

[hasu]

Thanks, noctua.
I hope you finish it and get your ideal keyboard finally.