Greetings, GNOMErs!

If you’re watching closely the GNOME Control Center iterations, you probably noticed it already has a bunch of new panels: Keyboard, Mouse & Touchpad, and other panels like Sharing, Privacy and Search that don’t need to be ported.

I’m pleased to announce that the Online Accounts panel joined this family.

Check this out:

This panel was easier to be ported since the codebase was already somewhat recent. It now features a single-column layout, which fits perfectly the next shell of GNOME Control Center.

Editing and creating accounts are now handled in a separate dialog:

But that’s not all!

The new Printers panel

Thanks to the always awsome Felipe Borges, we have a brand new, super shiny Printers panel. Most importantly, it has colored ink indicators! Dude, what else could you ask for?

I’ll let Felipe himself write this one in details, but why not tease the audience? 🙂

Lets shout a big thanks to this great GNOME contributor!

m(_ _)m

What’s left?

In order to permanently switch to the new shell (the one in the screenshots), there are three major panels to be reworked:

• Sounds: required to switch to the new shell, the Sounds panel will probably be very time consuming.
• Networks: another required and hard panel. This panel will be split into Wi-Fi, Mobile Broadband, and Networks, and it’ll probably require a lot of work too.
• Details: each tab in the Details panel will be split into a separate panel. It’ll be mostly manual work, and it’s easy (anyone interested in picking this one up? 🙂 )

This work can be tracked here. Excited? Join us in creating the next generation Settings application – contributions are so appreciated!