Comment 35 for bug 531173

I don't particularly like the concept of the indicator applet OR the "notification area" - similar concepts, lumping together several applets; I'd rather just add these things individually and arrange them individually.

BUT: this bug is about the keyboard indicator specifically, which has lost a capability which existed in previous versions and is useful and even essential to a number of people doing multilingual work. It works fine in Lucid and Maverick, and I make use of it frequently.