14 DAY TRIAL // The development team behind the GNOME Project is hard at work these days preparing to release the first Beta build of the upcoming GNOME Control Center app, an essential component of the anticipated GNOME 3.18 desktop environment, due for release on September 23, 2015.
According to the internal release notes, which we've attached at the end of the article for reference, GNOME Control Center 3.18 Beta 1 is here to add support for the new North Korean timezone, called Pyongyang Time, in the Date & Time section, as well as to replace any reference to WiMax with LTE in the Power section.
Additionally, the labels for Mobile Broadband and Wi-Fi toggles from the Power section have been improved, the "Bluetooth" (Obex) sharing feature from the Sharing section has been moved to the dedicated Bluetooth panel, the Sharing UI is now more stable when Bluetooth is disabled, and some accessibility improvements landed.
The Network section of GNOME Control Center sees the renaming of the hotspot security key to "Password," and a fix for the accidentally centered check button labels. The Notification section will no longer crash when the zero-length string is active, and the Region and Language section will no longer display all input sources in the chooser.
Distributed as part of GNOME 3.18 Beta 1
Lastly, an issue in the Printers section, related to the installation of the wrong printer driver, has been addressed. You can download the sources of GNOME Control Center 3.18 Beta 1 and take it for a test drive right now from Softpedia, but please try to keep in mind that this is a pre-release version that contains unknown issues.
Thus, we don't recommend installing it on production machines. GNOME Control Center 3.18 Beta 1 will also be distributed as part of the upcoming GNOME 3.18 Beta 1 desktop environment release. More details can be found on the changelog posted below.