Rime IME for IBus doesn't respect the system keyboard layout (Ubuntu 16.04).

[Jonathan Knowles]

== Reproduction steps ==

 1. Install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, selecting a non-QWERTY system keyboard layout (e.g. Dvorak) during installation.
 2. Install the ibus-rime package.
 3. Activate the RIME input method.
 4. Use the RIME input method to type characters.
 5. Observe whether RIME correctly respects the system keyboard layout.

== Expected behaviour ==

RIME respects the system keyboard layout, and allows character input according to that layout.

== Actual behaviour ==

RIME ignores the system keyboard layout, and appears to act as if the system keyboard layout is hard-wired to QWERTY.

== Package Details ==

$ dpkg-query -s ibus-rime
Package: ibus-rime
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 68
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.2-1build1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libibus-1.0-5 (>= 1.5.1), libnotify4 (>= 0.7.0), librime1, ibus, librime-data
Description: Rime Input Method Engine for IBus

$ apt-cache policy ibus-rime
ibus-rime:
  Installed: 1.2-1build1
  Candidate: 1.2-1build1
  Version table:
 *** 1.2-1build1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

== Other details ==

This bug does not appear to affect Ubuntu 14.04. It seems to be a regression introduced between 14.04 and 16.04.

[Jonathan Knowles (jsk)]

Note, I haven't tried this from a fresh install of 16.04.
(It could be that this bug also applies to fresh installs of 16.04.)

Let me know if I can provide any further information: I'm happy to assist with the resolution of this bug.

[Romano Giannetti (romano-giannetti)]

Without RIME, on an update of a system that use english as language, but with a spanish keyboard, the system come up with qwerty-us keyboard. So I think it's more generic --- the update process is (at least sometime) throwing away the keyboard configuration. Again.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Jonathan Knowles (jsk)]

After a fresh install of 16.04, I can confirm that this bug still occurs. In light of this, I'll update the description (removing a few steps, to make reproduction simpler).

[Jonathan Knowles (jsk)]

I filed a bug with upstream's bug tracker here: https://github.com/rime/ibus-rime/issues/15

(Not sure if there is a better way to link it with Launchpad.)