"IBus has been started!" message is incorrect and geeky

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Binary package hint: ibus

ibus 1.2.0.20090927-2ubuntu2, Ubuntu 9.10

1. "System" > "Preferences" > "IBus Preferences"
2. Choose "Yes"

What happens: "IBus has been started! If you can not use IBus, please add below lines in $HOME/.bashrc, and relogin your desktop.
  export GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
  export XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
  export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus"

Not only is this geeky and misspelled, according to Arne Goetje it is apparently also incorrect for Ubuntu. The environment variables should be set automatically.

This is not the same as bug 423525.

[Vish (vish)]

Could we just not have this dialogue? [and show a prompt only when there is an error.]

[YannUbuntu (yannubuntu)]

I agree this message should not be seen by the user. if there is an iBus bug, it should just be solved.
As an alternative, iBus should propose to test if it works, and if the user clicks on "it does not work", iBus should do automatically the changes ( that are currently suggested in the dialogue).

Furthermore, for information, the ubuntu-fr wiki says that the commands given in this dialogue don't work, and suggests to do instead the following commands:
cd /etc/alternatives
sudo rm xinput-all_ALL
sudo ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/ibus xinput-all_ALL

(I did not test, as my iBus has no problem).

[Vish (vish)]

This was fixed in ibus (1.2.0.20091215-1ubuntu5) maverick