Airplane mode to be integrated in GNOME 3.20

The airplane mode has been implemented by a number of hardware makers and companies for turning off any type of radio emissions which may interfere with the airplane’s avionics. This mode allows people to use their laptops, phones, etc, while they are on the airplane. It also helps in maximising battery life. Of late, GNOME developers have also been working together to get the feature ready for its GNOME 3.20 version, which will be arriving in a couple of months. According to developer Bastien Nocera, “As we were working on audio jack notifications, and were wondering whether the type of notification we’d pop up, in this case, could be reused in other cases, I encountered a feature request that could now be solved easily with the rfkill D-Bus service we added to gnome-settings-daemon for the 3.10 release. If you have keyboard buttons on your laptop to enable or disable Bluetooth, or airplane mode, you can now use them.”

GNOME 3.20 is going to be available on March 23, 2016.