14 DAY TRIAL // The upcoming GNOME 3.22 desktop environment is still in the works, and a first Beta build was seeded to public beta testers last week, bringing multiple enhancements and new features to most of its core components and apps.
While GNOME 3.22 Beta was announced on August 22, it appears that the maintainers of certain core packages needed a little more time to work on various improvements and polish their applications before they were suitable for public testing. And this is the case of GNOME Control Center, which was recently updated to version 3.21.90, which means 3.22 Beta.
We've talked a lot here about the GNOME Control Center app and its upcoming redesign, which will be entirely different from what you see right now on your GNOME-based GNU/Linux distribution, as well as on any other OS where this GNOME component is used, such as Ubuntu's Unity desktop or elementary OS' Pantheon interface.
Ported to the libnm 1.2 library, GNOME Control Center 3.22 Beta contains many of the promised goodies, starting with a redesigned Keyboard setting and the ability to fetch the renderer information from the gnome-session, as well as to display the operating system's build ID, and continuing with many improvements to the Display, Network, Online Accounts, and Mouse settings.
GNOME Control Center 3.22 to arrive on September 21 as part of GNOME 3.22
Some of the highlights include a new option in the Display setting to enable or disable overscan compensation if the video driver supports it, better detection of the Synaptics driver to the Mouse setting, the addition of a Calendar group to Online Accounts, and real-time refresh of the Wi-Fi list in the Network setting. Another interesting change in Network is the removal of bridge, bond, team, VLAN and virtual devices support.
Of course, there are also many bug fixes and minor improvements designed to make your GNOME desktop experience better, so you need to study the changelog attached below for all the technical details. In the meantime, you can also download the GNOME Control Center 3.22 Beta sources right now via our website to get an early taste of what's coming later in September as part of the GNOME 3.22 desktop environment.