I spent a considerable amount of my weekend working on packaging ibus in
my PPA. It's far too late for this to land in Quantal and here's a few
notes:

1. It needs gnome-control-center (System Settings) and gnome-settings-daemon to 
be updated. gnome-settings-daemon is critical infrastructure to the Unity and 
GNOME desktops and really ought to have more wide-spread testing.
2. The keyboard and ibus "indicator" system menus need to be rewritten
3. As most of the Ubuntu core developers are from Europe or the Americas, it's 
difficult on such short notice to verify that the new ibus works correctly for 
all the input methods currently supported in Quantal.
4. Ubuntu's extensive modifications to the Appearance panel of System Settings 
need to be rewritten, preferably as a separate panel. For now, if you want to 
change your theme, use gnome-tweak-tool.
5. For several reasons (one being I have to rebuild nux against the new ibus 
every time there is a new nux release or else Unity won't start), the PPA is 
not designed for Unity users.
6. The Ubuntu help will be outdated as it refers to System Settings 3.4, not 
3.6.
7. As I don't use any of these input methods & will likely upgrade to the Alpha 
of Ubuntu 13.04 soon after 12.10's release , there's no guarantee that I will 
continue to support the PPA
8. I haven't finished rebuilding all the ibus modules; let me know if there's a 
particular one you need.

There are benefits to the new ibus; it looks like the 4 layout limit no
longer applies.

https://launchpad.net/~jbicha/+archive/ibus

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1045914

Title:
  Keyboard layout doesn't show in GNOME Shell session

Status in “gnome-shell” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “ibus” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Keyboard layout doesn't show in GNOME Shell session. Using two layouts: ru, 
us.
  Ubuntu 12.10.

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