Me and Ikuya (and some Japanese Team members, that include CJK/i18n professionals) discuss about this problems. As a conclusion of the arguments, that problem has complex state and something race conditions, real fix is too hard for shottime.
However, indicator-ibus icon is important part of Desktop UX, because that is way of "IM invoke", many beginners use this icon (well, beginners hate keyboard shortcuts) . So, in Precise, we believe that this problem's workaround should be included in release note, I filed "Release Notes for Ubuntu". The workaround is same as comment 8, that include setup commands: ( from https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-jp/2012-April/004116.html , Original wrote: Ikuya Awashiro ) ------------------------------------------------------------ Release notes : ------------------------------------------------------------ In some cases (We could not identify the outbreak condition of the problem yet), ibus-indicator does not show in your indicator area. When you encounter a problem, workaround is below: {{{ $ gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['JavaEmbeddedFrame', 'Wine', 'scp-dbus-service', 'Update-notifier', 'ibus']" }}} ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Also affects: ubuntu-release-notes Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/875435 Title: iBus indicator does not show on the panel To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/875435/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs