All Settings in Gnome Shell is missing 'Software & Updates' icon

This is basically intentional for a couple reasons.

1. If Software & Updates were integrated into the Settings panel instead of a separate app, it would make a lot more sense.

2. The current gnome-control-center design does not have any extra room in the System row. The GNOME Developers hope that the new design will be ready for GNOME 3.26. The new design is more flexible about number of panels or subpanels.

Have you considered moving Software & Update settings into GNOME Software instead?

Thanks, but that does sound strange...
  Personal: 2 rows
  Hardware: 2 rows
  System: Limited to 1 row?

Ah yes, I can see there are at least three ways to launch Software & Updates still:
  1. Launch Gnome 'Software' and then find it in the panel menu.
  2. Search apps for 'Software & Updates'
  3. Just execute $ software-properties-gtk

For me this is no big deal but it's a significant omission for regular Ubuntu users moving from Unity7 to Gnome Shell.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Personal is supposed to be just one row too but we need to fix bug 1631750 first and then drop language-selector-gnome from the default install.

I don't see it as a significant omission to not have it in the Settings app. Ubuntu GNOME has done it that way for years. (We also have Tweak Tool for even more settings). The first 2 ways to launch it sound good enough to me unless you can think of a way to make it even more integrated into GNOME.

Whatever Gnome has done for years is not the point. I'm talking about a smooth transition and easy discoverability for current/former Unity7 users. But yeah discoverability is fine per the above methods.

I feel it's more important that we integrate well in the new desktop than just copying something we did before. But I'll add the tag so that it shows up on the list of bugs we are tracking for 17.10 and so we can see what the rest of the Desktop Team wants to do.

I'm closing this bug since gnome-control-center has a very different layout these days. The Software Updates link is now a button without icon as designed upstream.