Happy New Year everyone! 
I was working on MHWD and it’s almost ready (actually only some testing is needed) so I wanted you to present the design for KCM/Kirigami page.
I’m all ears to hear the ideas of what could be improved.
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Happy new year! 
Nice!
Feedback on the text:
The message that “no drivers available” could be perceived as a message that the hardware does not work correctly whereas it surely works as it is detected.
From what I recall when using windows, the first thing to do is go download a bunch of drivers when they are not there after installation and this seems to point to such a situation. So for the new user from the windows/apple world this might lead them in a wrong direction.
Rephrasing it to something like “Hardware detected and recognized” would be (in my mind) a better way to communicate the state of the hardware to the user.
When more modules/packages/drivers are available for detected hardware, does it show what is being used now?, so the user has a choice.
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The interface looks good. Maybe you want to rename it to “hardware” or “driver” control panel. Cause this is the only function this has.
I wonder how a noob user (since the fancy gui is targeted at them, isn’t it) will be able to choose between 11 drivers. Especially since some of the options are going to cause a black screen on next reboot…and then…command line, manual chroot on the now default btrfs, nonworking mwhd and havind to sort it out with pacman. Which is a very non-noob procedure.
Maybe it is time to work on an automatic recovery procedure instead.
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Looks good, very good.
My 2 cents, the label “No drivers available”, perhaps should be “No additional drivers available” since there must already be a kernel module running.
If the hardware is not supported, will it still show in the list?
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The page is not for supported or unsupported hardware in my opinion (what does ‘unsupported’ mean?), but for the availability of installable drivers. But I agree it may be confusing, and should say when the hardware has already drivers from the kernel (that might be more difficult to do though).
//EDIT: tell us when a version is ready to be tested so we can compile it and check it out.
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Build currently fails like by Omano. On XFCE.
[52/100] Scanning /home/teo/Downloads/manjaro-control-pane...ommon/src/TransactionAgentLauncher.cpp for CXX dependencies
FAILED: [code=1] mcp-qt/common/CMakeFiles/mcp-qt-common.dir/src/TransactionAgentLauncher.cpp.o.ddi
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In file included from /home/teo/Downloads/manjaro-control-panel/packaging/src/manjaro-control-panel/libmcp/kernel/KernelTransactionBuilder.hpp:15,
from /home/teo/Downloads/manjaro-control-panel/packaging/src/manjaro-control-panel/mcp-qt/common/src/TransactionAgentLauncher.h:17,
from /home/teo/Downloads/manjaro-control-panel/packaging/src/manjaro-control-panel/mcp-qt/common/src/TransactionAgentLauncher.cpp:8:
/home/teo/Downloads/manjaro-control-panel/packaging/src/manjaro-control-panel/libmcp/kernel/KernelProvider.hpp:19:10: fatal error: coro/task.hpp: No such file or directory
19 | #include <coro/task.hpp>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
[57/100] Linking CXX shared library libmcp/kernel/libmcp-kernel.so
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...