Comment 33 for bug 564034

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 9:06 PM, Karl Lattimer <email address hidden> wrote:

> This bug is certainly fixed.
>
> Can you ensure that you have the latest libindicate and ibus installed?
>
 freeflying@zphou:/tmp$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu maverick (development branch)
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick
freeflying@zphou:/tmp$ dpkg -l |grep ibus
ii ibus 1.3.7-1ubuntu2
             New input method framework using dbus
ii ibus-gtk 1.3.7-1ubuntu2
             New input method framework using dbus
freeflying@zphou:/tmp$ dpkg -l |grep indicator
ii evolution-indicator 0.2.10-0ubuntu1
              GNOME panel indicator applet for Evolution
ii indicator-applet 0.4.3-0ubuntu1
             GNOME panel indicator applet
ii indicator-applet-session 0.4.3-0ubuntu1
             Clone of the GNOME panel indicator applet
ii indicator-application 0.2.3-0ubuntu2
             Application Indicators
ii indicator-appmenu 0.0.9-0ubuntu1
             Indicator for application menus.
ii indicator-datetime 0.0.5-0ubuntu2
             A very, very simple clock
ii indicator-me 0.2.6-0ubuntu2
             indicator showing user information and status
ii indicator-messages 0.3.9-0ubuntu1
             indicator that collects messages that need a response
ii indicator-session 0.2.10-0ubuntu1
              An indicator showing session management, status and user
switching.
ii indicator-sound 0.3.9-0ubuntu2
             A system sound indicator.
ii libappindicator0 0.2.3-0ubuntu2
             Application Indicators
ii libappindicator0.1-cil 0.2.3-0ubuntu2
             CLI bindings for libappindicator
ii libindicate-gtk2 0.4.1-0ubuntu2
             GNOME panel indicator applet - shared library
ii libindicate4 0.4.1-0ubuntu2
             GNOME panel indicator applet - shared library
ii libindicator0 0.3.11-0ubuntu2
              panel indicator applet - shared library
ii python-appindicator 0.2.3-0ubuntu2
             Python bindings for libappindicator

> Can you indicate the behaviour you're experiencing?
>
There should have a icon in notification area to notify which IME is being
used, but now, this icon doesn't show up.

>
> --
> Panel no longer shows which input method is being used
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/564034
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> of a duplicate bug (617865).
>
> Status in Libindicator: Fix Released
> Status in “ibus” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “ibus” source package in Lucid: Won't Fix
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: ibus
>
> In ibus 1.2.0.20091215-1ubuntu3 and 1.2.0.20091215-1ubuntu2, IBus was
> changed to use a custom status menu ("application indicator") instead of a
> notification area item.
>
> Application indicators currently do not allow bitmap icons. So in bug
> 528213, the new indicator was altered to use a generic keyboard icon instead
> of the icon representing the current input method whenever the latter is a
> bitmap -- which is most of the time.
>
> This makes it unreasonably difficult to tell what input method you are
> currently using. According to Emmet Hikory, this problem will affect anyone
> who uses IBus to type Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, who uses an input method
> that does not cover all the characters they use, but who does not use a
> dedicated keyboard with specific keys for changing input method.
>
> Because of the number of people this affects, I think this may deserve
> fixing for Ubuntu 10.04, even though we're past Final Freeze. As I
> understand it, fixing it would involve removing 05_appindicator.dpatch from
> the package.
>
> Problem occurs in: Ubuntu Lucid
> Does not occur in: Ubuntu 9.10
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