This change is nice, however, as Neil said, affects non-symbolic icons; and Ubuntu ship a non-symbolic icon for the keyboard layout indicator (please see bug 620331 regarding removal of the keyboard icon, needs raising its importance because now is a highly visible problem).
This change is nice, however, as Neil said, affects non-symbolic icons; and Ubuntu ship a non-symbolic icon for the keyboard layout indicator (please see bug 620331 regarding removal of the keyboard icon, needs raising its importance because now is a highly visible problem).