Comment 9 for bug 827426

What would be the problem with going straight to the "in the long run" solution? There's an icon set here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-ubuntu/+bug/628015/comments/9 where each icon is a key-shaped background with the ISO code letters from the layout. This can be used with the current oneiric as explained in the above link, and works just fine. This icon set should ideally be changed in two ways:
- Adjust colour to current oneiric theme
- Make letters transparent so that the icon does not become entirely white when the unity dash opens
Surely the process of generating the icons can be automated to do all 246 of them for both ambiance and radiance in no time.

I suppose that this problem (i.e. bug #620331, bug #628015) hasn't been addressed because there are additional requirements (distinguish multiple layouts per ISO code? identify input method?) that make the ISO code icons a stop-gap solution... but they are nonetheless closer to the design than the stop-gap solution proposed here of only adjusting the keyboard icon to the theme.