What if you want to use different layouts per applications? What if you have more than 2 layouts? One of the most annoying bugs for many people (not for me though) is now closing for the upcoming GNOME 3.8 release.
Control Center 3.8 introduces a new option to allows us to use different sources for each window.
Input Sources per Window
I am not sure when this bug came up, but I think it was in GNOME 3.6. Anyway, it will be gone in a few months with the next major release of GNOME.
That’s better, but still far for perfect as for some core functionality you need Tweak Tool. The patch was came from Rui Matos who also made the commit in master today.
If you want to learn more about it, just go ahead and read bug #684210 report with all details and developers opinions about it. iBus in GNOME is one of the most discussed topics ever ;)