https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119967
--- Comment #10 from Yohei Yukawa yukawa@google.com --- (In reply to Takehiko Abe from comment #8)
(In reply to Yohei Yukawa from comment #6)
Why do you think Direct input mode is a better choice?
Please ask him. But I suppose that IBus developers no longer want to handle tricky requirements from Japanese input method users in IBus side.
For example, please try to assign Ctrl+J to switch to Hiragana mode of Mozc from any other input source that does not belong to Mozc. According to the following thread, it is still unable. https://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=747
While the discussion is informative and interesting, it has little to do with why direct input mode should be the default. (am i missing something?)
I've attached a screenshot in comment #8, which I suppose explains when and why people expect Mozc to start with Direct input mode. Actually this configuration is almost equivalent to the default configuration on Windows Japanese edition, where the default input mode is Direct except for Windows 8.
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.