This is about “All Applications” -> “Input Method”.
Problem 1) It is found when user searches for “Keyboard”.
Problem: You cannot change anything for you keyboard here.
Problem 2) It shows a keyboard icon.
Problem: Indicates, that keyboard settings could be done here (e.g. add something like “ibus-anthy” as input).
Problem 3) It’s text is “Input Method”.
Problem: Indicates, that keyboard settings could be done here (e.g. add something like “ibus-anthy” as input).
Problem 4) It shows up as a “big” search result.*
Problem: “General Users” probably don’t need to know/use this dialog, but it’s presented as a big result.
*This may be invalid after changing the text, search keyword and icon
Suggestions
Suggestion 1) Should not show up for search on “Keyboard”
Suggestion 2) Change the icon to indicate something very technically. Don’t use a keyboard icon.
Suggestion 3) Change text to “Input Engine” or “Input System” ( A wording to express “this is something technical”) - This suggestion should not only be considered for the English text, but also for translations.
Suggestion 4) Make it show as a small result to indicate “this is probably something you don’t want / need”. (Probably not necessary after sugg. 1~3)
Actually we have a simpler UI in the Language Support tool which serves the same purpose as Input Method:
The intention is to hide Input Method in application menus/searches in those flavors which ship Language Support by default. So why isn’t it hidden in Ubuntu then? Probably because there was a plan to stop shipping Language Support in Ubuntu when we switched from Unity to GNOME.
But Language Support is still there, and as long as it is, it would make sense IMO to hide Input Method (im-config) also in Ubuntu.
Thanks!