Indicator disappears when switching to non default layout

[Edwin Pujols]

I am experiencing this problem with a non-default icon theme (Numix icons).

I have two layouts: English and Latin American. When I switch layouts (with Shift+Shift_R) from English to Spanish, the indicator disappears. When I switch back to English, the indicator reappears.

I've checked with adding a third layout, but the indicator won't show unless the layout is set to English (my default layout).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: indicator-keyboard 0.0.0+14.04.20140311-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-17.37-generic 3.13.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Mar 17 08:31:59 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-16 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140316)
SourcePackage: indicator-keyboard
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, I can confirm that

[William Hua (attente)]

Hi, I'm having problems replicating this. When the indicator disappears, is indicator-keyboard-service still running?

[Edwin Pujols (edwinpm5)]

@attente Yes, I checked and indicator-keyboard-service is still running.

[William Hua (attente)]

@edwinpm5 When the indicator is visible, and you open the menus, do you see the 'Es' icon in the menu? Also, what versions of ubuntu-mono and indicator-keyboard are you running?

[Edwin Pujols (edwinpm5)]

Yes, when I open the menu I can see the 'Es' little icon (if I click it the indicator vanishes too).

ubuntu-mono: 14.04+14.04.20140324-0ubuntu1

indicator-keyboard: 0.0.0+14.04.20140311-0ubuntu1

[Edwin Pujols (edwinpm5)]

@attente Oh! Sorry, the problem was caused by the theme I was using. Ambiance and Radiance don't have this problem. I'll mark the bug as invalid, sorry for the confusion :(

[Edwin Pujols (edwinpm5)]

Correction, I mean my non-default *icon* theme was causing the problem. ubuntu-mono works perfectly.

[William Hua (attente)]

@edwinpm5 My apologies, Edwin, I think this isn't a theming issue, but actually an indicator-keyboard bug after all. Thanks for your bug report!

[William Hua (attente)]

This might be a regression caused by a change to libindicator (from version 12.10.2+14.04.20140218-0ubuntu1 to 12.10.2+14.04.20140304-0ubuntu1).

[Joe Carey (joecarey)]

Same problem for me maybe. I have a Japanese keyboard but installed Trusty in English (my mother tongue). The indicator no longer shows up when I am in English input mode. I can only switch to Japanese input by the shortcut (shift-super-spacebar). When I do the indicator appears but as soon as I switch back to English (same shortcut) the indicator disappears.

[Joe Carey (joecarey)]

Sorry, forgot to add that I am also using a non-default icon theme (Faenza). Wasn't a problem in 13.10.

[William Hua (attente)]

Looking into it a bit more, it might be a GTK+ bug, but luckily it's easy enough to just fix it in libindicator.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libindicator - 12.10.2+14.04.20140402-0ubuntu1

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libindicator (12.10.2+14.04.20140402-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  [ William Hua ]
  * Don't load using the icon info structure if it's a GBytesIcon. (LP:
    #1293548)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Apr 2014 14:50:52 +0000

[Joe Carey (joecarey)]

Works as promised, thanks kindly.

[Joe Carey (joecarey)]

Er, with one small exception. The text entry icon appears, but in its greyed-out form only. I was watching a video review of 14.04 and noticed the icon appears its usual bright white. Small thing, but there it is.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could you open a new bug report about the icons issue (with a screenshot if possible)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

(check first if that's fixed with https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-keyboard/0.0.0+14.04.20140403.1-0ubuntu1)

[Joe Carey (joecarey)]

I'm probably crazy, and it's probably supposed to look the way it does, I'll just leave it the way it is. Thanks for your time.

[Edwin Pujols (edwinpm5)]

@joecarey, That gray/difficult to read icon is with the non-default icon theme (Numix in my case). I checked and ubuntu-mono doesn't have this problem (both icons use white background). Consider advising the Numix Project about this.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you are probably not crazy, feel free to post a screenshot of your issue (specify what icon theme you use as well)

[Joe Carey (joecarey)]

Thanks gents. I have filed a bug report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-keyboard/+bug/1302581

Let me know what you think.