The latest ibus-gnome3 + gnome-shell can show a special symbol char on ibus status icon by ibus engine. The symbol can be defined in engine's /usr/share/ibus/component/*.xml . Now ibus-anthy-1.2.6-3 has a symbol char and the similar fix is needed for major ibus engines. % grep symbol /usr/share/ibus/component/anthy.xml <symbol>あ</symbol> The following patch is the example: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=ibus-anthy.git;a=blob_plain;f=ibus-anthy-xx-icon-symbol.patch http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=ibus-hangul.git;a=blob_plain;f=ibus-hangul-xx-icon-symbol.patch (Note: probably you don't need hotkeys tag since your engine would need Control + Space only for the trigger)
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=3253901 I added symbols for almost all engines included in m17n-db-1.6.2-3.fc15.noarch m17n-db-extras-1.6.2-3.fc15.noarch m17n-contrib-1.1.12-5.fc15.1.noarch however, there are still missing symbols for some engines for which I don't know representive symbols. I'll build this in F16 once it is considered well for supported languages.
ibus-m17n-1.3.2-10.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/ibus-m17n-1.3.2-10.fc16
ibus-m17n-1.3.2-10.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.