Comment 13 for bug 827426

@Paul: I understand your argument about UI freeze and documentation, but regarding the amount of coding needed, it is zero; there already exists a gsettings key that toggles the behaviour I've described (which I've been using for 3 releases now): org.gnome.libgnomekbd.indicator.show-flags.

Bug #853184 comes about due to the fix to bug #828862, by which no polychromatic icons will display correctly in dash mode - but transparencies are still correctly represented. Changing the keyboard icon to any of the variants proposed here, whether icon or Unicode character, or using the show-flags feature with icons satisfying the requirements I described in comment #9, will not encounter this problem.