Lots of really good stuff and Andreas! Thanks for taking a stab at collecting and refining the designs already shared. It'll be really helpful. I'll pour over them this weekend and start putting together some design proposals for the developers based on everything shared so far. In the meantime I hope to get some feedback from the developers soon on the current design direction.

Hi,

It look really great but I think the partitioning page is too complicated and goes against the conventions of a wizard type interface.

There are radio buttons to choose the type of install and then all that should be necessary to proceed is to click 'Next'. In the current mock-up, there is essentially a 'Next' button for each option but with an overly verbose label e.g 'Format and Install'. All these could be replaced by one 'Next' button.

Likewise, the summary at the end is nice but why not simply have bullet points instead of a verbose description?

Name: Jens Reuterberg
Location: Gothenburg
Keyboard: Swedish
Language: Swedish
etc.

This is just much quicker to digest.

Despite these criticisms it looks awesome so thanks, I really hope this shared Qt Random OS installer becomes a reality soon.

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An idea - just thinking out loud.

It might help give Susan the feeling that 'that installation was easy' if we included a screenshot of what to expect to see when she reboots (and maybe some simple instructions too) on the summary screen at the end of the installation. This information should be easy for each distro to change if they modify their Grub screens. The first reboot is when she'll be most nervous!

I'm loving all of your work! Thank you!

Just to give you a quick update, I'm working on the language selection page right now. For 1.0 I still want to implement the current page widget (the top ribbon), and as much as I can of everything else.

Could I please also have a logo/icon for Calamares? "Calamares" is not a user-visible string, because distros are free to customize all the branding, but I still need an icon to use as default icon and for some light product identity on a website I'm putting up.

Wouldn't it make more sense to ask the user to type in a string of characters @#" etc in order to guess the keyboard profile instead of presenting them with a long list of profiles, would obviously need to rummage through all the profiles to see what characters you would require the user to input in order to make accurate guestimates. I am all for customization but don't really want to siphon through a long irrelevant list when I don't need to. MostAll installers get it wrong in terms of keyboard profiles to be perfectly honest. The UI should be guiding the user rather than the user guiding the UI.

teo wrote:Could I please also have a logo/icon for Calamares? "Calamares" is not a user-visible string, because distros are free to customize all the branding, but I still need an icon to use as default icon and for some light product identity on a website I'm putting up.

Here's a candidate icon, I came up with:


Hope this helps!

alake wrote:

teo wrote:Could I please also have a logo/icon for Calamares? "Calamares" is not a user-visible string, because distros are free to customize all the branding, but I still need an icon to use as default icon and for some light product identity on a website I'm putting up.

Here's a candidate icon, I came up with:


Hope this helps!

I like it!

I think that this is perfect too

alake wrote:Here's a candidate icon, I came up with:

I just saw that blog post http://teom.org/blog/kde/sometimes-you- ... the-wheel/ on planet KDE. Are there any plans to implement the design proposals from this thread? I am sure that our designers will be more than happy to help with that task. And of course congratulations on the release of the first version

alake wrote:Here's a candidate icon, I came up with:

Hope this helps!

Hi Alake,

could you push the svg-icon to the plasma-next-icons repository. Icon size is 48x48px for software icons.

thanks

andreas_k wrote:Hi Alake,

could you push the svg-icon to the plasma-next-icons repository. Icon size is 48x48px for software icons.

thanks

Hi andreas_k,

The final icon is actually different from this one. Check with Jens or Teo. I think the final one is floating around somewhere between them.