Calamares changes

demm

For the next ISO there will be quite a few changes to the installer Calamares.
One was already discussed in the move to pipewire.
Next change is the ability to now do an install without the need for a physical keyboard. The Keyboard page had the interactive keyboard to test the layout implemented late last year, now the Users page has the option to enable a virtual keyboard added.
With the addition of that virtual keyboard it was also better to move the navigation from the bottom to the side.
Here some images of the changes:

demm

Opinions please on also moving the sidebar (move it to the bottom). Above images have on the side like it has been since 2014, images below have it at the bottom:

shalokshalom

Love the changes to the sidebar and dislike the move to the right of the navigation buttons.

Not only are three buttons easy to implement without taking too much space on the bottom.
Now, with the new design, they take up a lot more space and add this grey area of completely unused space additionally.

demm

shalokshalom they take up a lot more space

Not clear how you come up with that, sidebar is not even 1/3 of the old sidebar, bottom bar is slightly smaller (narrower) then old bottom (navigation bar). So there is now way more focus on the actual modules (they can now use 90% of the available space, instead of about 70 %).
Bottom is completely full this way, remember that all modules have to show, in different languages, English is general the shortest of all texts. During all testing, I don't enable the partition module for example, so that text is added in the final version. See image below.
You probably missed there are 5 buttons & and the logo (in that 1/3 of the space).

But, in the end changes will be hated by some liked by others......

Compare that with old way:
https://kaosx.us/img/2022/welcome.png

shalokshalom

I think the new way takes up a lot more space, looks incomplete and unprofessional.
I would just stretch the navigation bar a bit more and add back and forth buttons to it.

No reason to create a full, huge bar, that is used for two simple actions.

demm

Slide show is now updated too.
No longer in use are complete different images for each slide, now it has one static background and animated text sliding & fading in & out. Corresponding images for each text are now fading in as slides too. Less jarring transition as was before, so now it is no longer needed to mouse click to advance the slides, it loops automatically.
Two examples (though no image of the animation):

shalokshalom

demm Looks and sounds awesome, thanks 😃

demm

One more change to the Users module, no more use of changing the line edit color. That way, the ISO can use Kvantum for Calamares too (Kvantum is not compatible with QML palette, thus couldn't be used for quite some time).
In use now is an icon that changes colors according to entry status: