Broken Budgie keyboard indicator settings and missing Chinese popups after Ibus installation

[baimafeima]

Operating System: Solus 1.2.1 Solus 2017.04.18.0
Budgie version: Budgie 10.2.8 Budgie 10.3.1
Follow up: https://dev.solus-project.com/T1573

The issues encountered:

1. After having installed Ibus, the Budgie keyboard indicator settings are messed up. Switching between de and us doesn't work anymore. Switching to zh_CN shows Chinese characters when I type, however, without the popup which is present when having the Ibus indicator activated in the system tray. Lastly, why not rename zh_CN to cn?

Steps to reproduce the issue:
Install Chinese (libpinyin), English, and German language support.

[baimafeima]

Popups also don't show when typing with libpinyin. Maybe the problem is that I am trying to add libpinyin to the keyboard layout indicator and the gnome settings mix the two together when in fact they should be separated?

[baimafeima]

I think this screenshot illustrates better what I mean with missing popups when typing in Chinese. This is a critical bug for me as I currently cannot use Budgie for lots of Chinese-related work.

[changediff]

I'm using fcitx, it works fine. You may want to try it before the bug being fixed 发送自 Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook>

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[stevenhtian]

I have the same issue, but I can enter the Chinese characters in the budgie applications themselves (e.g. the Software Center). I cannot do so for any other application (e.g. LibreOffice or gedit).

By the way, I am using Solus:
uname -a
Linux sol 4.8.15 #1 SMP Sun Jan 1 17:15:40 UTC 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[theJian]

Encounter the same issue on Arch Linux with budgie 10.2.9

[0x9394]

@CarlsPlace how can I install fcitx in solus budgie? thanks.

[baimafeima]

I can confirm that the above-mentioned two independent issues are still present: German keyboard layout and Chinese popups/tooltips don't work.

[ikeydoherty]

The issue is still open @baimafeima :)

[riumutu]

I also encountered this issue on Ubuntu Budgie 17.04.
I found the Hanja (ideograms) selector popup for Korean (ibus-hangul) doesn't show up either.

Instead, I've found ibus-daemon -r -d command is a nice workaround.
Thanks to a comment in the Solus forum.
https://dev.solus-project.com/T3066
I hope this information will help for completely fixing this issue.