indicatorkeyboard-layout
As it is explained here I wanted to show current country flag in a keyboard indicator. The problem is where to find those country flags.
Does anybody know where can I download country flags appropriate for keyboard indicator?
I have found one here but it only has language abbreviations, I need country flags instead.
Thank you.
Yes, the icon doesn't reflect the language chosen. I think it may have something to do with the fact that showing "flags" would often be inappropriate. (Examples: flag of Great Britain in India, flag of Germany in Austria, flag of France in Senegal).
The current metaphor, i.e. KEYBOARD → Langauge is very much in accordance with user experience guidelines.
The behaviour you're describing was removed quite some time ago. It was another application (can't remember the name) that dealt with keyboard layouts then. (At least I remember something like that, I'm not quite sure now come to think of it)
What i did to get the above screen shot was go to Keyboard-Layouts, select add, Hebrew/Israel and add it to the list. My system has been upgraded since 9.10, so it should be the same on nearly every Ubuntu installation.
The old behaviour is still lurking in the system. If you want the indicator to show Flags, you can open gconf-editor, got to /desktop/peripherals/keyboard/indicator and enable "showFlags". However, you'll need the relevant flags to be in /home/<username>/.icons/flags (press CTRL+H to show directories that start with a period). The flag of israel should be named il.png (which is israels ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code).
Copy flags picture into /usr/share/pixmaps/flags and name it - us-symbolic.png.
Best Answer
Three seconds of googling return a set of freely (as in beer) usable flag icons - are these ok for your use case?