Originally Posted by
Jamie Buxton
If you're building a fully custom desk, a keyboard tray is a bad idea IMHO. Instead, build the desk height whatever you like, so that when you put your keyboard on top of the desk it is the correct height for you. A keyboard tray pushes you back away from the rest of the desk, so it is farther to anything you put on top of the desk -- a mouse, books, papers, a coffee cup, whatever. Keyboard trays also tend to bounce around while you type, which is disconcerting. And keyboard trays entail extra hardware. Just put the darn keyboard on the desk and all these issues go away.