Comment 9 for bug 489205

I can confirm the fix committed in revision 1839 seems to correct the issue of crashing on startup when multiple keyboard layouts are present. Also seems to no longer produce errors when adding keyboard layouts through gnome-keyboard-properties.

It may already be known (or expected) - but the following weirdness occurs after using the Dialect applet to switch between layouts - hot-keys configured in gnome-keyboard-properties no longer function - neither does clicking on the gnome-panel applet 'keyboard layout indicator' to change layouts; Adding a new layout via gnome-keyboard-properties re-enables the hot-keys and click-to-change functions of the gnome-panel applet, but both become inoperable again after using Dialect to select a layout.

I am only noting the above in case someone else also requires managing multiple keyboard layouts through 'gnome-keyboard-properties' for system wide multi-layout accessibility - gdm, etc.