Comment 7 for bug 1481025

How can you tell that im-config shouldn't start IBus? So you are Greek, and I'm Swedish, but AFAICT there is no way for im-config to know whether you or I want to be able to type Japanese or Hebrew. It's reasonable to expect that alternative desktop environments, which claim to work on Ubuntu, are compatible with IM frameworks such as IBus, fcitx, etc.

Did im-switch work differently in this respect? To be honest, I don't remember. I suspect that it was not the change from im-switch to im-config which caused this problem, but rather the integration of keyboard layouts and more complex input methods.