Hide panels from Gnome settings

The multitasking and color panels in gnome settings require Gnome Shell, and crash when you use the settings app outside of the shell. You can remove them from the sidebar so that you don’t accidentally click them (making your settings unusable).

cd /usr/share/applications/
sudo mv gnome-color-panel.desktop gnome-color-panel.desktop.bkp
sudo mv gnome-multitasking-panel.desktop gnome-multitasking-panel.desktop.bkp

You can always turn them back on:

cd /usr/share/applications/
sudo mv gnome-color-panel.desktop.bkp gnome-color-panel.desktop
sudo mv gnome-multitasking-panel.desktop.bkp gnome-multitasking-panel.desktop

If you did click them, you can reset the current panel using gsettings:

gsettings set org.gnome.Settings last-panel wifi