Comment 14 for bug 531173

I just subscribed to this bug because I just noticed the behavior in the keyboard indicator - it no longer displays different icons for variants of the same country layout, as for USA, USA1, USA2. This change must have occurred in the past few weeks, as I have been using alternate US layouts for different languages for many years. Typically I have the basic USA layout and a couple of different alternate USA layouts, switching to the basic one when I'm typing in English.

On some systems, you can set up the scroll lock LED to show alternate layouts, but that's not of great use when there are 3 or more layouts set up. Also, on my Dell netbook there is no scroll lock flag in the hardware or software, so that doesn't work. And it has no LEDs, so I would have to set up the Lock Keys Applet, which in fact doesn't show the nonexistent scroll lock flag.