Keyboards Options

[Da_Blitz]

i am intrested in what you would like to see in the keyboard

some things i would like:
lots of shortcut keys: i do alot of VT switching and have them bound for that
Backlit: with one or two colors
Laptop like keys: keys simmilar to a laptop rather than the hard button cxx00 or membrane
dvorak layout as well as qwerty: perhaps printed on the same keyboard layout to reduce variations

one idea that i have had )not sure how much you will like it) is to use a corded aproch where a letter is made up of 1 or more button pushes (common keys are one button, less common are two or more buttons pushed at the same time)

the advantage is that you could have full sized keys and it should help with some anoying key combos (try doing a ctrl+c without sticky keys on a cxx00), the problems however are that you would need to learn a new keyboard, maximum typing speed is slowed down slightly

i will of course not be shiping it unless its specified but i belive that one or two people may be intrested, mainly those who are into wearable computers, with a screen rotation it would allow you to have your computer and your keyer in one

any other proposals, normal or otherwise, for the keyboard

[uMP2k]

Another vote for sticking to the qwerty layout.

As for the actual keyboard design, well I have not actually used one of the Z keyboards (yet!) but from what I read they seem to be pretty good for thumb typing.

Of course if somebody could work out how to implement something like the folding keyboard on the Psion 5/5mx well.....

Realistically however, I am thinking maybe something like the current Z keyboard but with some extra keys for the missing punctation etc.