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Merge dev-talesam into main - #37

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With no name typed yet there are no initials to show, and the placeholder was
a question mark - which reads as something having gone wrong rather than as a
field still to fill. The branding already ships the symbolic user icon the
sidebar uses, so the preview shows that until a name arrives and the initials
take over.
The cancel and close confirmations are plain QMessageBox instances built by
Calamares with no object name of their own, so the branding stylesheet is the
only handle on them - and CalamaresWindow applies that stylesheet to itself,
which reaches them as its children. They came up cramped against their own
text and with a tick and a cross on the buttons, the one piece of icon-theme
artwork in a dialog otherwise drawn by the widget style, which is what made
them look unlike the pages behind them. They get room now, and the buttons
lose those icons and keep everything else the style gives them: setting a size
or a padding on them made the style draw its default-button frame around the
box while the button painted inside it, which showed as a second rectangle
around the default button.

The account preview shows the symbolic user glyph whatever the name is. It
used to show initials, falling back to a question mark while the field was
empty, and a question mark reads as something having gone wrong rather than as
a field still to fill. Both profiles carrying the QML screens get it, so they
do not drift apart.
Clicking Install used to raise a "Continue with Installation?" question that
said what the page behind it already said, so it is switched off - the page is
the confirmation - and the one sentence worth keeping, that the changes cannot
be undone, sits on the page itself. That sentence is borrowed from the
installer's own catalogue rather than translated again: it is the bold half of
the dialog's question, so qsTranslate finds it in every language Calamares
ships, and falls back to the English source the way the dialog did.

The page it now has to carry that warning was a stack of full-width panels
above a list that scrolled, and the warning would have scrolled away with it.
The two panels sit side by side, the choices are cards with a coloured badge
each - one hue per step, from icons recoloured here since the branding ships
them all in the same blue - and the heading is just the title: the sentence
under it repeated the panel below, and every line the heading takes is a line
the choices lose. Together that is enough for four entries without a scroll
bar.

Panels are Frames, not Rectangles holding anchored children, so they take
their size from their content instead of the other way round; and their
heights are matched with a binding rather than Layout.fillHeight, which in a
row inside a column also claims the space the list needs and left it with
none. Every colour is the accent at a low alpha over the page, so one set of
values reads on the light palette and on the dark one.
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talesam merged commit dd61bfd into main Sep 10, 2026
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