I wish there'd be readily available keyboards/pads where one could just use the surface (key surfaces) as the touchpad when fingers brush across on them softly.
I was building an ergo split keyboard and was also interested in this problem. After a bit of searching on the internet, I found this:
https://github.com/vlukash/corne-trackpad
The author used a BlackBerry trackpad. In his blogpost he showed that it can be mounted on top of a keycap. I believe that you can 3d print a special keycap integrate directly with the trackpad.
