gnome-control-center-46.0.1

[Xi Ruoyao]

New major version.

[Xi Ruoyao]

46.0.1:

• Handle legacy panel arguments
• Added/updated/fixed translations

Accessibility

• Allow launching subpages directly

Privacy

• Fix Thunderbolt panel not launching

System

• Avoid setting auto time sync when it isn't needed
• Improve startup time by loading subpages on demand

46.0:

• Various translation updates
• Update links in appdata file
• Improve sidebar search results

Appearance

• Add a transition to the selected background check

Color

• Fix visibility of calibration button

Online Accounts

• Reorder online account providers list

Privacy & Security

• Allow launching subpages of the privacy panel directly

Wacom

• Bump libwacom dependency requirement to >= 1.4
• Add AES styli as separate stylus SVG
• Accept eraser types of button when matching stylus IDs

46.rc:

• Allow launching some subpages from the command line
• Various ports of custom widgets to libadwaita widgets

Appearance

• Track current active background better

Display

• Add support for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) modes
• Show the full VRR range for a monitor when possible

System

• Introduce the "Remote Login" settings
• Rename the old "Remote Desktop" settings to "Desktop Sharing"
• Reintroduce some of "System" pages as search results

Users

• Fix issue with newly created user page showing other user's info
• Introduce a new "Add Enterprise User" dialog

46.beta.2:

Exceptional release to fix translations

46.beta.1:

Exceptional release to include gnome-online-accounts changes

46.beta:

• Drop pkexec dependency
• Bump gcr dependency to gcr4
• Reorder sidebar/panel list
• Use g_clear_handle_id with g_source_remove to remove GSources
• Add CcHostname as a wrapper to interact with system-hostnamed
• Remove periods in subtitles/descriptions/labels according to the HIG
• Various string/sentence rewording (for clarity)
• Various style changes in symbolic icons
• Various ports of custom widgets to modern libadwaita alternatives
• Various new mnemonics added
• Various CI fixes

Accessibility

• Expose new "show-status-shapes" setting
• Rephrase overamplification string in the "Hearing" settings
• Stop tracking old GTK theme
• Stop forcing HighContrast icon theme (The theme is considered deprecated)

Apps

• Tweak headings & descriptions from Default Apps sections
• Tweak the autorun-never option design (inverting the autorun-never option logic)
• Use modern libadwaita widgets in the Removable Media settings

Keyboard

• Use AdwActionRow to show the key modifier options (improves accessibility)

Network

• Fix missing VPN entries

Mouse

• Add "Test Settings" button to the body of the panel
• Modernize mouse test dialog (adds secondary-click test)

Printers

• Add padding to the sidebar items from "Printer Options"
• Add .suggested-action style class to "Test Page" button

Privacy

• Hide non-functional microphone panel

Search

• Add commandline parameter for opening the Search Locations dialog directly
• Stop removing non-existent folders from tracker
• Expose single directory setting
• Add placeholder for custom locations
• Set title for non-existent bookmarks
• Always show switch for default/bookmarks
• Handle unset XDG dirs
• Tweak search locations labels

Sharing

• Fix alignment of networks section in the File/Media sharing dialogs
• Use edit-delete-symbolic in networks list rather than window-close-symbolic
• Move main switches from dialog headerbars into the dialog's content area

Sound

• Show radio buttons as prefix for the Alert Sound rows
• Add tooltips to all speaker test buttons

System

• Move "Remote Login" from sharing panel to System (now named "Secure Shell")
• Use polkit to request permissions to enable/disable sshd
• Create CcSystemDetailsWindow upon opening (speed up System panel startup time)
• Fix crash in About page after dark mode switch
• Don't show Remote Desktop settings when backend is not available
• Show gnome-control-center version on the "GNOME Version" row in the About page
• Fix language chooser dialog not closing in Users page

Wacom

• Port some widgets to modern libadwaita alternatives
• Switch to using a dialog for stylus button assignments
• Highlight the currently active stylus
• Give proper ids and classes to the stylus SVG components
• Provide connector name for disambiguation
• Drop list to handle pads
• Pair only builtin pads with tablets
• Prefer the stylus over the eraser
• Don't call the standard styli "Standard stylus"

Wi-Fi

• Show password when sharing QR Code
• Fix crash with toast notifications in the Saved Networks dialog

46.alpha

• Introduce the new "System" panel, grouping the settings of Region & Language, Date & Time, Users, Remote Desktop, and About.
• Add an "About Settings" dialog
• Various appdata improvements
• Various mnemonics added
• Various tooltips added
• Various CI fixes
• Various accessibility fixes
• Make "gnome-control-center --version" work on non-supported environments
• Bump meson dependency to >= 0.58
• Disable "deprecated-declarations" by default for builds
• Introduce -Ddeprecated-declarations=enabled meson build option
• Add CODEOWNERS file

Accessibility

• Rename "Overlay Scrollbars" to "Always Show Scrollbars" and invert this setting logic
• Reword the "Accessibility Menu" row
• Add description text to "Cursor Size" dialog
• Port Cursor Size dialog to AdwWindow
• Use AdwSpinRow in Zoom -> Magnification Factor row

Appearance

• Improve overall load and resize performance of background thumbnails
• Improve background chooser performance
• Make background preview thumbnails sharpier

Apps

• Drop sidebar by implementing a new mockup with a search bar inside the panel
• Move "Default Apps" and "Removable Media" panels into the "Apps" panel
• Add a banner indicating when an app isn't sandboxed
• Separate the "Required Permissions" row into its own section
• Add headings to rows from the app settings section
• Port "Removable Media Settings" row to AdwSwitchRow
• Ignore symlinks when measuring cache/data size to improve accuracy
• Use "computer-fail-symbolic" icon instead of GNOME Software's icon
• Fix "File & Link Associations" crash
• Fix "File & Link Associations" UI not updating
• Fix launching an app page from the command line (ex.: "gnome-control-center application $APP_ID)
• Replace snapd-glib with a native implementation

Cellular

• Various HIG compliance changes

Date & Time

• Add description to "Week Numbers" row

Displays

• Port custom switch rows to AdwSwitchRow

Keyboard

• Add "Left Ctrl" key to Compose Key options
• Add "Insert" key to Compose Key options
• Port Shortcut Editor from deprecated GtkDialog to AdwWindow/AdwToolbarView
• Fix showing window decoration buttons when showing the "Unsupported network daemon" status page
• Show title buttons at the initial state of "Set Shortcuts" dialog
• Add visual outline to shortcut graphic arrows

Mouse

• Add "Secondary Click" option for Touchpads (aka "Click Method")
• Add "Disable While Typing" setting to Touchpad page
• Update edge-scroll animation to represent better dimensions of physical devices
• Port custom switch rows to AdwSwitchRow
• Split "Scroll Method" and "Direction" into separate row groups
• Prevent test window arrows from interferingf with scrolling events
• Fix illustrations looking blurry on small window sizes
• Fix the linked-style of the primary mouse button setting to work on RTL languages

Network

• Use period as thousands separator on network speed label
• Avoid critical warning for floating reference in hotspot dialog
• Various UI spacing and alignment changes in the connection editor pages
• Share WPA3 (SAE) networks with QRCode
• Hide QRCode icon when connection not successful
• Handle bluetooth device connections ourselves (instead of depending on NM connection-editor)
• Don't show "Saved Wi-Fi Networks" row when there's nothing to show
• Use a "Undo" toast to allow users to undo forgetting a network in "Saved Wi-Fi Networks"
• Make the "forget network" button show only an icon (instead of a icon+label)
• Fix sensitivity of DNS and route configuration widgets
• Warn user if both automatic and manual DNS is configured
• Unset DNS entry errors when entry is empty
• Disable Wi-Fi Hotspot row when Wi-Fi is not active

Notifications

• Stop listing system services on the panel

Online Accounts

• Various memory leak fixes

Power

• Add mnemonics to help navigate the automatic suspend dialog
• Modernize the Suspend dialog

Privacy & Security

• Rename panel from "Privacy" to "Privacy & Security"
• Update panel description text
• Rename "Location Services" page to "Location"
• Make icons larger in Location/Camera/Microphone pages
• Make page visibility checks cancellable to avoid crashes
• Fix crashes on Camera and Firmware Security pages
• Rename location switch title to "Automatic Device Location"
• Reword and re-style the "Privacy" policy text

Region

• Preview measurement format in current locale

Remote Desktop

• Use "rdp" instead of "ms-rd" for hostname URL
• Add documentation link to instruct how to use remote desktop

Sharing

• Make panel adaptative
• Use AdwPreferencesPage/AdwPreferencesGroup in all dialogs

Users

• Port to AdwNavigationView/Page widgets
• Move into the "System" panel
• Use AdwAvatar to generate default user icon and mark generated avatars as such

Wacom

• Update illustration style
• Generate a smooth pressure curve instead of just 7
• Introduce mark indicating the center-point of the stylus pressure curve
• Extend ther pressurecurve range by 25% in each direction
• Use the ExpressKey Remote name for the EKR

[Douglas R. Reno]

Fixed at ba3f5f24b3e600ad0480f3d1e4c084d086415465