keymap indicator applet hard-coded to use black fonts

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Binary package hint: gnome-applets

The new GNOME keyboard map selector applet in 2.29 (which seems to have been converted into a Notification Area item since Karmic?) appears to be hard-coded to use black fonts, which makes it impossible to see what it says, on a theme with a dark GTK2 background color.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jan 20 18:33:24 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-applets 2.29.5-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fi_FI.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-10.14-generic
SourcePackage: gnome-applets
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-10-generic i686

[nbubis (nbubis)]

Have the same prob, changing the foreground color through gconf-editor does not work either.
Also, There seems to be no way of removing the indicator - what if I don't want the keyboard indicator at all?

[Pablo SEMINARIO (pabluk)]

I can confirm that it works to establish a new color to key in Lucid alph3 using gconf-editor. The key name is /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/indicator/foregroundColor and with a sample value of "255 0 0" (without quotes).

[Pablo SEMINARIO (pabluk)]

This bug is a duplicate of this bug 513152 and was fixed.

[Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk)]

Sorry, no, it still isn't fixed.

[Pablo SEMINARIO (pabluk)]

Sorry, you're right, i updated the lastest version of libgnomekbd and it still isn't no fixed.
The status of the bug 513152 was changed to Fix Released, but someone also reported that still doesn't work.