I'm sorry Oded but I disagree, I've been using the keyboard indicator applet 
for quite some time prior to moving to Lucid beta, and I had "Fra" when on my 
default French setting and "Fra²" when on my other French setting.
I agree the indicator didn't say "Fra (alternative)" and "Fra (bepo)", but it 
did give me an indication of the fact that separate variants of the French 
keyboard were in use.

In Karmic, and Jaunty etc. before that, clicking on the applet switched from 
Fra to Fra² and then to USA if I had a third layout installed.
I'm 99% sure about this.
I even had a bug every now and then back then where the switching pattern use 
to become Fra > Fra² > ?? > ??² > Fra > …
So it would circulate through all the available layouts regardless of language.

But anyway, I think we all agree that the indicator needs to tell us
about what actual layout is in use, and not just what language the
layout is designed for.

And if, from what I gather, the indication was supposed to be done
graphically (via a country flag I suppose), there should be an option to
have the basic Fra or USA letters, and not a flag. Not all of us want to
see a brightly coloured item in our gnome panels. :)

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New Lucid keyboard layout indicator does not indicate current layout
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