GNOME Control Center 3.6 (along with GNOME Settings Daemon 3.6) has finally made it into the GNOME 3 PPA for Ubuntu 12.10. This was the last piece that was missing for Ubuntu 12.10 users to get a truly complete GNOME 3.6 experience.

Here's what's new in GNOME Control Center 3.6 (version in the PPA is 3.6.3) compared to the previous version available for Ubuntu 12.10 users (3.4.2):

Background: new design (the old one is till used in Unity, see below)

Mouse & Touchpad: new design

Mouse & Touchpad: new testing area

Mouse & Touchpad: natural scrolling option added ("Content sticks to fingers") for touchpad

Sound: Remove hardware page, and offer different connectors directly from the input and output pages

Keyboard: Add common keyboard layout related options to the shortcuts tab

Network: Improve the Wi-Fi page layout

Network: Split the wireless panel

Network: Add network strength to the details panel

Wacom: add support for "switch monitor" shortcut

Printers: redesigned "new printer" dialog

New option to show notifications in the GNOME Shell lock screen

The old Appearance panel (this includes the old background pane, Unity settings etc.) is now displayed only under Unity and comes as a separate package

Many other changes

To upgrade to the latest stable GNOME Control Center 3.6.3 in Ubuntu 12.10, use the following command to add the GNOME 3 PPA (the PPA will also upgrade Nautilus, Totem, etc. to the latest 3.6.x version):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

Then, launch Software Updater use it to upgrade your packages.

Here are a few screenshots: