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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727019
--- Comment #4 from fujiwara tfujiwar@redhat.com 2011-09-14 21:16:32 EDT --- (In reply to comment #3)
Fujiwara i gone through feature you have added it nice. I feel icons are more informative than single characters, so i would like to continue with the icons, might be we can make it little bit smaller and matching with the gnome-shell theme.
However I think the character icon is the policy of gnome-shell: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Guidelines/SystemStatus/InputLangua...
If you don't add '<symbol>' tag, the default is the two chars from the engine's language. The problem is, if you use input method is 'tamil-99' and keymap is 'Tamil', both icon will be 'ta'. If you think 'tamil-99' is keymap, probably the default language chars are ok. But if it's input method in which you often need to disable the IM status, probably it's better to assign a multi-byte char.
For Fedora 16, gnome-shell-3.1.91-2.fc16, gjs-1.29.17-1.fc16 and ibus-gnome3-1.3.99.20110817-5.fc16 are required. Also gnome-shell disables any extensions by default in Fedora 16 so you need to enable ibus-gnome3 by manual to set gsettings: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_ibus_gnome_shell https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/InputMethods#GNOME-Shell
Regarding to the icon size, currently I'd think to fix to install ibus-gnome3 instead of using pygtk2 statusicon on gnome-shell.