Re: Freeze break: gnome-shell: show IBus status indicator on top panel when running

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> I'd like to apply the one-line patch in:
>
>  http://bugzilla-attachments.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=184196
>
> to gnome-shell. This is the most trivial possible change to GNOME
> to try and address the input method situation as I described in:
>
>  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2011-March/msg00064.html
>
> There's the obvious downside of having a legacy icon in the status
> area if IBus is started accidentally for a user who doesn't understand
> or need input methods, but I think that's a serious problem whether
> the icon appears on the top panel or in the message tray. And this
> should definitely improve the situation for the group of users that
> need input methods.
>

Seems harmless enough. We really should work on minimizing that group
of users though, by making sure ibus doesn't get started in en, de and
other western locales.

+1