ibus pinyin preference not working

[walterclozet]

System is Ubuntu 17.10 amd64
lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 17.10
Release: 17.10

select sunpinyin from gtk3 menu, click preference, nothing happens. trying cli mode, error shows:
/usr/lib/ibus/ibus-setup-sunpinyin
/usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-2.0/apps/mate-panel.rc:30: error: invalid string constant "murrine-scrollbar", expected valid string constant
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share//ibus-sunpinyin/setup/main.py", line 42, in <module>
    import ibus
ImportError: No module named ibus

it seems python-ibus is missing, but trying to install python-ibus shows the package does not exists. seems only exists in trusty and trusty-update.

[walterclozet (walterclozet-u)]

currently install python-ibus from trusy-update will solve the problem. i download one from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/amd64/python-ibus/1.5.5-1ubuntu3.2, and install the deb with dpkg, and sunpinyin setup window will show. but i think ubuntu 17.10 should include this package by default.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[KANGOD (kangod)]

@walterclozet I wish so, but on Ubuntu 17.10, I just got
<code>
$ sudo apt install python-ibus
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package python-ibus
</code>

[walterclozet (walterclozet-u)]

@KANGOD install python-ibus from trusy-update will solve the problem. i download one from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/amd64/python-ibus/1.5.5-1ubuntu3.2, and install the deb with dpkg -i