Unnecessary gst-keyboard-xkb appearing in Notification Area when multiple keyboard layouts enabled

To reproduce:
1. Log into GNOME Shell
2. Add new layout: System Settings > Region and Language > Layouts, add new layout

Observed behaviour:
Broken icon is shown at bottom right of screen, hovering over it has test gsd-keyboard-xkb. Clicking on it shows the Unity indicator settings for keyboard layout.

Expected behaviour:
This element should not appear, as GNOME shell already has a keyboard layout switcher on the top of the screen

Same here.

Same also

now here is appearing gsd-keyboard-xkb "broken icon" :(

This happens to me also. It is an annoying thing really.

Is this still reproducible? I still see the gsd-a11y-keyboard from System Settings>Universal Access>Typing>Turn on accessibility features from the keyboard, but I don't see gsd-keyboard-xkb.

Just updated my oneiric installation. It's still reproducible.

I just updated to oneiric and I'm getting this.

Absolutely quick and dirty fix for this...

$ apt-get source gnome-settings-daemon
...
$ sudo apt-get build-dep gnome-settings-daemon
...
$ sudo apt-get devscripts build-essential fakeroot patch patchutils
...
$ cd gnome-settings-daemon-3.2.0
$ patch -p1 < 0001-change.patch
$ debuild -uc -us -b
...
$ cd ..
$ sudo dpkg -i gnome-settings-daemon_3.2.0-*
...
$ sudo killall gnome-settings-daemon

gsd-keyboard-kbd applet should be GONE.

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i cant apply the patch above it gives me hunk failed...

The indicator patch should only display an icon in the same case the upstream code displays an icon in the systray, could somebody check if that happens without the indicator patch?

super annoying...upgraded from 11.04 and I get this too.

GNOME Shell assigns known tray icons a 'role' based on their WM_CLASS. If the role that is filled by a native Shell status indicator, the icon is hidden. That list could be patched for a quick fix, but I'd prefer using the upstream icon as a fallback; is there any chance of that happening? The AppIndicator fallback does not identify the current layout.

the same for me
#9 just removes keyboard indicator from panel but not fix it 8(((

the issue is not a gnome-settings-daemon but a gnome-shell whitelisting one then

> but I'd prefer using the upstream icon as a fallback; is there any chance of that happening? The AppIndicator fallback does not identify the current layout.

if you want to send a patch for that please do but that's non trivial since it requires having 2 different codepaths and a runtime selection, it's either to just use the indicator and let the automatic fallback do the work

Can someone please test if this bug occurs with the latest g-s-d in precise? I think it's a duplicate of bug 878951.

The problem seems to have been fixed in the latest Precise :)