GNOME Control Center

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GNOME Control Center
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Version: 3.28.2 / 3.30.0 Beta 1 updated
Upload Date: 16 Aug 18
Developer: Jonathan Blandford
Distribution Type: Freeware
Downloads: 68

Rating: 3.3/5 (Total Votes: 4)

GNOME Control Center is an open source project that allows GNOME users to control various aspects of their desktop environment, as well as of the Linux operating system on top of which GNOME is installed. The application provides a single, easily accessible place where users can interact with GNOME's settings. It is integrated into the GNOME desktop environment and can be accessed through the system tray area.

Easy access to main GNOME settings

The program is comprised of three main settings categories, such as Personal, Hardware and System. The Personal section includes the Background, Notifications, Online Accounts, Privacy, Region & Language, and Search entries. The Hardware category includes Bluetooth, Color, Displays, Keyboard, Mouse & Touchpad, Network, Power, Printers, Sound and Wacom Tablet. Lastly, the System category include Date & Time, Details, Sharing, Universal Access and Users.

Designed for new and experienced users

It can be easily used by new and experienced users alike, so they can successfully configure various aspects of the GNOME desktop environment. Therefore, users will be able to change the desktop wallpaper, add or remove online accounts, change privacy, language and notification settings, configure the integrated search function, enable Bluetooth support, and configure their peripheral devices.

Additionally, the application can be used to change the color profile and settings of your monitor, configure network connections, printers, wacom tablet, sound and power settings. Also, you can use it to change the default applications, set the date and time, add and remove users, or enable sharing.

Also known as Unity Control Center

Several well known Linux-based operating system forked the GNOME Control Center application, transforming it into their very own control center app. A popular example is the Ubuntu distribution, where GNOME Control Center is present in the form of Unity Control Center. Any GNOME user has interacted with the GNOME Control Center in a form or another to set various hardware components, change the wallpaper or even to add new users on their Linux system.

What is new in this release:

  • Use symbolic icons in Shell search
  • Network:
  • Better device names
  • Power:
  • Improve wording of some strings
  • Region & Language:
  • Make Language Chooser dialog implement mockups
  • Wi-Fi:
  • Improve Airplane Mode

What is new in version 3.28.2:

  • Don't pass --overview on desktop file
  • Translation updates
  • Display:
  • Fix crashes on Night Light dialog
  • Network:
  • Fix various Bluetooth and VPN issues
  • User Accounts:
  • Fix building without Cheese
  • Fix wrong enterprise user/password hint

What is new in version :

  • Translation updates
  • Background:
  • Fix background preview with newer gtk+ versions
  • Info:
  • Fix opening the panel from the .desktop file
  • Network:
  • Don't require a private key password for TLS connections
  • Avoid a crash with the proxy dialog
  • Avoid crashing if NM doesn't report any devices or connections
  • Notifications:
  • Add help link
  • Printers:
  • Fix compilation with cups versions < 1.7
  • Privacy:
  • Fix the Empty Trash button
  • Sound:
  • Fix random selection of input/output device when the selected one is removed
  • Wifi:
  • Fix help link

What is new in version 3.26.1:

  • Honor OnlyShowIn/NotShowIn in panel desktop files
  • Make alternative window decoration layouts work with the new split header bar
  • Translation updates
  • Background:
  • Improve panel responsiveness
  • Color:
  • Ensure a reasonable minimum height
  • User Accounts:
  • Fix password strength check
  • Wifi:
  • Prevent some potential crashes

What is new in version 3.26.0:

  • Translation updates.

What is new in version 3.25.3:

  • Fix memory leaks
  • Background:
  • handle EXIF orientation in chooser
  • Network:
  • Reduce connection editor dialog width
  • Rely on notebook tabs to switch connection editor pages
  • Align details page labels at start
  • Move checkboxes to Details page
  • Drop Reset page
  • Adapt forget button label according to connection type
  • Move Security page to the end
  • Use radio buttons instead of a combobox in IP pages
  • Avoid crashing if the NMDevice doesn't have a hw-address
  • Simplify the ignored Network interface types
  • Online Accounts:
  • Move the margins and spacing lower down the hierarchy
  • Increase the spacing above the "Remove Account" button
  • Printers:
  • Don't block when removing printers
  • Allow undoing deletion of a printer
  • Add 10s timeout for printer removal
  • Scroll view to show newly added Printer
  • Move options dialog spinner out of the action area
  • Add print "Test Page" button to Options Dialog
  • Hide supply level bar when there is no inklevel data
  • Region & Language:
  • Make the input source chooser back button activate on click
  • Don't return the input chooser dialog if nothing is selected
  • Avoid starting with a gap at the bottom of the input chooser

What is new in version 3.25.2:

  • Memory leak and correctness fixes
  • Translation updates
  • Keyboard:
  • Discard the added shortcut on Escape
  • Network:
  • Fix mobile broadband switch state

What is new in version 3.24.0:

  • Translation updates.

What is new in version 3.22.1 / 3.24.0 Beta:

  • New Printers, User Accounts and Online Accounts designs
  • Keyboard shortcuts bug fixes
  • Add "Night Light" functionality to Display settings
  • Add Wayland support to Wacom settings, and update design

What is new in version 3.22.1:

  • Translation updates
  • Display:
  • Ensure the preselected resolution matches the current mode
  • Keyboard:
  • Fix capture of Alt+PrintScreen shortcuts

What is new in version 3.20.1 / 3.22.0 Beta:

  • Fix truncated panel names for larger fonts
  • Port to libnm 1.2
  • Translation updates
  • Display:
  • Add option to enable and disable overscan compensation when supported by the driver
  • Ensure only one output is set as primary
  • Separate interlaced from normal modes
  • Info:
  • Fetch renderer information from gnome-session
  • Show OS build-id
  • Keyboard:
  • Update to a new design
  • Mouse:
  • Show only relevant widgets for the hardware we're able to detect
  • Detect and warn if we're running on the synaptics driver
  • Make all listbox rows unactivatable
  • Remove superfluous GtkListBoxRow
  • Allow keyboard navigation/focus to the Touchpad section switches
  • Offer a separate option for edge scrolling
  • Don't allow two-finger and edge scrolling at the same time
  • Network:
  • Use VPN plugin paths as specified in the .name files
  • Ensure the Wifi list is updated as networks appear/disapper
  • Hide firewall zone combo when firewalld is not running
  • Remove bridge, bond, team, VLAN and virtual devices support these are most useful on non-desktop systems for which a UI like Cockpit is better suited
  • Remove the first page of the "Add Connection" wizard
  • Update wireless-security UI from network-manager-applet
  • Remember "Ignore CA certificate"
  • Fix removed connections not disappearing
  • Fix hotspot silently failing with long hostname
  • Fix several crashes
  • Online Accounts:
  • Don't use deprecated GoaProviderGroup API
  • Add a Calendar group
  • Let goa_provider_show_account create the full UI

What is new in version 3.19.5:

  • Added plenty of missing widget mnemonics for better UI keyboard navigation
  • Updated translations
  • Bluetooth:
  • Avoid broken state when enabling Bluetooth
  • Don't change the switch status when transitioning
  • Bump required gnome-bluetooth version to 3.18.2
  • Network:
  • Elipsize device metadata fields
  • Region & Language:
  • Ensure that system and user formats are consistent
  • Sharing:
  • Ensure Tracker rygel plugin is disabled
  • Wacom:
  • Avoid crashing when opening the panel on wayland sessions

What is new in version 3.18.2:

  • Updated translations
  • Build fixes
  • Fix a number of memory leaks

What is new in version 3.18 RC:

  • Build fixes
  • Updated translations
  • Power:
  • Fix "automatically brightness" setting not showing up
  • Printers:
  • Fix crash when certain characters were used, adding a printer manually
  • Region & Language:
  • Show the current locale instead of en_US as the language if not already set. This happened for newly created users.
  • Fix keyboard navigation in the input chooser
  • User Accounts:
  • Don't crash if GDM isn't installed

What is new in version 3.17.2:

  • Keyboard:
  • Honor immutable command/name in custom commands
  • Network:
  • Make the gear buttons round
  • Prevent a use after free crash when removing virtual devices
  • Power:
  • Add support for display dimming using an ambient light sensor
  • Hide Bluetooth power section when w/o BT
  • Remove "When battery power is critical" label which isn't configurable by normal users since UPower 1.0

What is new in version 3.16.2:

  • Updated translations
  • Fix a couple of minor memory leaks
  • Network:
  • Prevent some dialogs from becoming too wide
  • Notifications:
  • Make section headings accessible
  • Do not show nameless apps
  • Align icons
  • Printers:
  • Update printer options correctly
  • Wacom:
  • Stop using removed last-calibration-resolution gsetting

What is new in version 3.16.1:

  • Updated translations
  • Add AppData file so it cannot be removed in GNOME Software
  • Color:
  • Set the default profile quality at startup
  • Set the users profile title when generating a profile
  • Allow to change profile color by activating the list box row
  • Display:
  • Fix some memory leaks
  • Close the dialog when the RR configuration changes
  • Mouse and Touchpad:
  • Fix checking touchpad capabilities when multiple devices are present
  • Fix sensitivity of two-finger scroll toggle with libinput X11 driver
  • Fix tap-to-click toggle sensitivity with libinput X11 driver
  • Network:
  • Fix a crash on IPv6 settings dialog
  • Online accounts:
  • Disable the remove button for locked accounts
  • Prevent the attention-needed icon from getting hidden and widen the list
  • Power:
  • Make section headings accessible
  • Printers:
  • Recognize more supply types
  • Sound:
  • Fix duplicated Bluetooth devices
  • User Accounts:
  • Show restart notification when account type changed
  • Wacom:
  • Support tablets where the stylus doesn't have an eraser such as the Huion and UC-Logic tablets
  • Require udev to be present to build Wayland support
  • Fix possible crashes

What is new in version 3.16.0:

  • Updated translations
  • Network:
  • Fix many reference leaks and potential crashers
  • Online Accounts:
  • Remove scrollbars with single entry lists

What is new in version 3.15.4:

  • Disable SSLv3 because of POODLE
  • Translation updates
  • Background:
  • Fix possible crash when date isn't available
  • Fix crash when adding the second color
  • Power:
  • Disable hover on non-clickable rows
  • Printers:
  • Automatically keep the selected row scrolled in view
  • Region:
  • Make Add/Done buttons blue as intended
  • Don't crash for locales with no country code
  • Search:
  • Use g_get_system_data_dirs() to discover providers
  • Sound:
  • Fix the main volume bars to correctly display changes in volume
  • Universal Access:
  • Make Add/Done buttons blue as intended
  • User Accounts:
  • Fix a crash when taking a photo in the avatar chooser
  • Reset language dialog to original state when used the 2nd time

What is new in version 3.14.1:

  • Keyboard:
  • Allow shortcut explanation text to wrap
  • Network:
  • Hide airplane switch when g-s-d says so
  • Power:
  • Conditionally display the bluetooth button
  • Printers:
  • Don't crash for URIs with leading "//"
  • Region:
  • Obtain keyboard variant from IBus
  • User Accounts:
  • Show correct language if it isn't set
  • Make sure widgets are the same height
  • Fix language chooser response if language is unknown
  • Preset language chooser if language is known

What is new in version 3.14.0:

  • Translation updates
  • Fix restart notifications' text getting clipped under some translations

What is new in version 3.14 RC1:

  • Translation updates:
  • Updated libgd to fix GdNotification theming
  • Background:
  • Fix background chooser dialog resizing when switching views
  • Use a stack with three views for the chooser dialog
  • Fix memory leak in Flickr support
  • Date & Time:
  • Don't hard-code font size
  • Keyboard:
  • Fix a crash if the WM changes (or restarts)
  • Network:
  • Fix possible crash when wireless-enabled changes
  • Fix more potential crashers for WWAN
  • Report hotspot is running only if device is active
  • Really hide all of the virtualisation bridges
  • Don't show underlying device for VPN connections
  • Sharing:
  • Fix empty folder list by default
  • User Accounts:
  • Fix various UI padding issues
  • Fix focus in the account dialog

What is new in version 3.14 Beta 2:

  • Translation updates
  • Date & Time:
  • Fix crash when setting year to 0
  • Network:
  • Center "Wi-Fi hotspot" properties
  • Fix warning on startup with hotspot enabled
  • Show an error when we fail to turn off hotspot

What is new in version 3.14 Beta 1:

  • Color:
  • Do not set the 'Details' button for virtual profiles
  • Keyboard:
  • Suggest to automatically set reverse bindings
  • Network:
  • Make broken configuration entries red
  • Create WPA protected AP hotspot if supported
  • Fix network icon names for newer versions
  • Remove "..." from dialogue titles
  • Add DNS to the keywords
  • Fix typo in NetworkManager version checking
  • Printers:
  • Allow to add AppSocket/HP JetDirect and LPD printers
  • Privacy:
  • Add location setting
  • Search:
  • add support for default disabled search providers
  • Sharing:
  • Fix crash in media preferences
  • Avoid truncated folders list in media sharing
  • Make it possible to share remote folders
  • User Accounts:
  • fix response sensitivity of photo dialog
  • allow password changing if old password isn't set or empty
  • Add restart notification
  • fix enterprise toggle
  • prefill domain entry

What is new in version 3.13.3:

  • Fix automake warnings
  • Fix compilation warnings in a number of panels
  • Update Sharing panel for gnome-settings-daemon API change

What is new in version 3.13.2:

  • Use new RTL icons support in GTK+
  • Background:
  • Use higher resolution thumbnails on HiDpi displays
  • Sharing:
  • Add per-network Media, File and Screen sharing
  • Date & Time:
  • Fix initial state when NTP isn't supported
  • Network:
  • Fix warning on startup
  • Hide the Virtualisation bridge
  • Display:
  • Make monitor label look better
  • Add "Monitor" to keywords
  • Make the Apply button unsensitive for invalid configuration
  • Fix layout when rotating the left-most of the displays
  • Privacy:
  • Fix "Immediately" option not truthful
  • Details:
  • Fix crash when using vboxvideo glx driver
  • Printers:
  • Ellipsize long names and locations
  • Notifications:
  • Drop the dep on libgnome-menu
  • Shell:
  • Make search results sorting smarter
  • User Accounts:
  • Fix DateTime instance leaks
  • Fix wrong language being shown
  • Add filter to the avatar file chooser
  • Online Accounts:
  • Use a header bar for the "Add Account" dialog
  • Color:
  • Update the UI if the ICC profile title changes
  • Keyboard:
  • Add shortcut to launch gnome-control-center

What is new in version 3.13.1:

  • Use header bars in dialogs
  • Color:
  • Do not crash when toggling devices and reopening the panel
  • Details:
  • Don't crash on Wayland
  • Keyboard:
  • Drop hard X dependency
  • Network:
  • Do not pretend we can overrule hardware rfkill
  • Translations update

Requirements:

  • GNOME
  • GTK+

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