https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119967
--- Comment #13 from fujiwara tfujiwar@redhat.com --- (In reply to Yohei Yukawa from comment #10)
Interestingly Microsoft IME changed the default input mode to Hiragana instead of Direct in Windows 8, then changed the default mode back to Direct in Windows 8.1, probably because of lots of negative feedback.
Thank you for that info. I didn't know Windows 8.1.
I had some discussions about mono IME. I think one IME is useful for Japanese by default however it seems Chinese users like to switch US layout and some Chinese IMEs and then it seems the mono IME is a special request for Japanese and Korean. Currently ibus-hangul has no mode and under the discussion. Now both ibus and gnome configures XKB engines and IM engines by default and if users wish the mono IME, they need to delete the loaded XKB engines by manual. I've been thinking the better implementation but basically ibus upstream does not agree with the language specific patch for ibus core.