I was excited as it brought a long-standing Unity-era behaviour to the modern GNOME Shell-based Ubuntu desktop.

Regularly readers may recall an Ubuntu Dock merge proposal I wrote about a few months back. Window spread is the default behaviour now On portable devices the menu will present battery information on the upper left of the pod. Options to suspend, restart, or power-off are now located behind the ‘power’ icon in the upper right of the the new menu. For input, a mic must be in use for the mic slider to show. Regularly switch between audio input and output devices? The new quick toggles panel makes it changing input and output audio devices easy: you can do it straight from the menu by clicking the overflow arrow that appears when compatible hardware is connected/attached. The network pod also supports in-menu sub-panels where you can, e.g., select a different network directly, no more pop-up modal or trip to Network settings required.

It now takes just one click to enable/disable Wi-Fi, VPN, Bluetooth, Night Light, Airplane Mode, and Dark Mode. As you can see in the animated gif above, the new pod-based system menu in GNOME 43 (which Ubuntu 22.10 features) is a major departure from the list-based one found in previous builds.

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