GNOME Control Center 3.6 (along with GNOME Settings Daemon 3.6) has finally made it into the GNOME 3 PPA for Ubuntu 12.10. This was the last piece that was missing for Ubuntu 12.10 users to get a truly complete GNOME 3.6 experience.
Here's what's new in GNOME Control Center 3.6 (version in the PPA is 3.6.3) compared to the previous version available for Ubuntu 12.10 users (3.4.2):
- Background: new design (the old one is till used in Unity, see below)
- Mouse & Touchpad: new design
- Mouse & Touchpad: new testing area
- Mouse & Touchpad: natural scrolling option added ("Content sticks to fingers") for touchpad
- Sound: Remove hardware page, and offer different connectors directly from the input and output pages
- Keyboard: Add common keyboard layout related options to the shortcuts tab
- Network: Improve the Wi-Fi page layout
- Network: Split the wireless panel
- Network: Add network strength to the details panel
- Wacom: add support for "switch monitor" shortcut
- Printers: redesigned "new printer" dialog
- New option to show notifications in the GNOME Shell lock screen
- The old Appearance panel (this includes the old background pane, Unity settings etc.) is now displayed only under Unity and comes as a separate package
- Many other changes
Here are a few screenshots:
To upgrade to the latest stable GNOME Control Center 3.6.3 in Ubuntu 12.10, use the following command to add the GNOME 3 PPA (the PPA will also upgrade Nautilus, Totem, etc. to the latest 3.6.x version):
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3Then, launch Software Updater use it to upgrade your packages.
