I was running Vivid on 2 laptops. I did a dist-upgrade on each of them and had the experience described above on both laptops.
Additional details:
1. ibus and ibus-pinyin were installed during system installation as normal.
2. I added and then removed ibus-pinyin as an input method (on on computer, but not the other).
3. But I had not yet installed the additional ibus packages that I normally use, such is ibus-libpinyin, ibus-anthy, etc. on either computer.
4. The dist-upgrade contained the packages in the attached list, including fcitx (etc) as an automatic install and the new version of indicator-keyboard.
5. I added ibus-libpinyin, but could not add the method. After a little investigation I saw that fcitx was now the default IM. I assumed this was by design and added fcitx-libpinyin, etc.
6. I noticed an immediate change in the topbar input icon.
Thanks for your quick response.
I was running Vivid on 2 laptops. I did a dist-upgrade on each of them and had the experience described above on both laptops.
Additional details:
1. ibus and ibus-pinyin were installed during system installation as normal.
2. I added and then removed ibus-pinyin as an input method (on on computer, but not the other).
3. But I had not yet installed the additional ibus packages that I normally use, such is ibus-libpinyin, ibus-anthy, etc. on either computer.
4. The dist-upgrade contained the packages in the attached list, including fcitx (etc) as an automatic install and the new version of indicator-keyboard.
5. I added ibus-libpinyin, but could not add the method. After a little investigation I saw that fcitx was now the default IM. I assumed this was by design and added fcitx-libpinyin, etc.
6. I noticed an immediate change in the topbar input icon.
Please let me know if there's anything I can add.