ibus preferences do not show up in search or indicator bar

[DarkTrick]

This might be two separate bugs. But I feel like they have the same root, so I reported them as one.

Remarks:
[1] This report is *not* related to bug 1854610 in ibus-anthy (Ubuntu) "No Japanese input possible after upgrade from 19.04 to 19.10" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1854610

[2] This report might be related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd/+bug/1580463, but I'm not sure. Someone with more technical knowledge should look into this.

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steps to reproduce:
1) Have a fresh ubuntu 19.10 installation
2) install ibus and ibus-anthy
3) press windows key to open all applications
4) type in ibus

Actual:
5) ibus settings will not show up

Expected:
5) ibus settings show up

Workaround:
6) open Software center
7) search for ibus
8) click "launch there"

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steps to reproduce:
1) Have a fresh Ubuntu 19.10 installation
2) install ibus and ibus-anthy
3) Set input method to "ibus"
4) restart

Actual:
5) ibus preferences do not show up in the top bar at the indicators

Expected
6) "ibus preferences" is visible at the top bar inside the indicators area.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: ibus 1.5.21-1~exp2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-24.26-generic 5.3.10
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Dec 7 13:10:27 2019
SourcePackage: ibus
UpgradeStatus: no upgrade log present

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your report! It's not a bug, though.

$ cat /usr/share/applications/org.freedesktop.IBus.Setup.desktop | grep '# GNOME' -A 1
# GNOME uses its own "input source" settings instead
NotShowIn=GNOME;Unity;

IBus is integrated into the GNOME desktop, and normally the UI provided by Settings -> Region & Language is sufficient.

Closing.

[DarkTrick (darktrick1337)]

Thank you for pointing out, that this is a configuration problem of Ubuntu. What would be the way of promoting that?

Problem:
Detailed settings for ibus-anthy cannot be done.

Problems of that problem:

(1) Ctrl+Alt+e- shortcut cannot be configured ( should do something about emojis (never worked here))
(2) Ctrl+Alt+u- shortcut cannot be configured ( allows to set a unicode point (never worked here))
(3) (Font size of Kanji-convertion suggestions cannot be changed)

Annotation: perhaps it's worth setting the default shortcuts (1) and (2) to null

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

It's not that ibus-setup is disabled, but since its core functionality is replaced by Settings on an Ubuntu desktop, we have chosen to hide it to prevent confusion.

I would consider the examples you mention as advanced configuration. You can still open it using e.g. <Alt>+<F2> and enter ibus-setup. Ideally there should be a GNOME specific ibus-setup GUI with a limited set of components. I proposed that recently, but was turned down:

https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/2222

Nevertheless, the way to change it would be to make upstream change their mind.

But as regards this bug report, i.e. the fact that ibus-setup is excluded in Activities searches and not visible in the top bar, they are not Ubuntu bugs but intended behavior. Re-closing.

[DarkTrick (darktrick1337)]

Profound question: Where would an upstream bug be filed? I thought launchpad.net/ubuntu is already the source?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Ubuntu is a distribution, and most software included in Ubuntu is originally developed and maintained elsewhere ("upstream").

An IBus bug would be filed at <https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/>. If you do, you may want to refer to the issue I mentioned and which was closed by the upstream maintainer.

[DarkTrick (darktrick1337)]

I think I got a better picture. Thank you very much for your help!

I set this bug to Invalid.
I filed a new bug explicitly going after the shortcut settings in Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/1885749