https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119967
--- Comment #5 from Takehiko Abe keke@gol.com ---
I understand your opinion, but at least one of IBus core developers seems to be suggesting the current behavior.
https://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=1662#c1
After Issue 1659 is fixed, I'm thinking we don't need xkb engines for ja and
(D'oh! Is that the "Japanese" input source that does not do japanese? I remember I was puzzled by it. I think I'm getting why it is there now. Why not removing direct input mode instead? It's redundant. but i digress)
personally I think the initial mode can be Eisu mode permanently.
But WHY?
The post does not explain why he thinks Direct Input mode is better default than Hiragana. I looked around but did not find anything concrete.
Why do you think Direct input mode is a better choice?
I feel most of confusions came from so frequent UX changes in IBus upstream. It's really sad, and it makes me less motivated to maintain ibus-mozc.
Nowadays I'd like to spend my spare time on improving Mozc on other platforms like Windows and Android rather than keeping up with never-ending UX changes in IBus.
I'm sorry to hear that. It's depressing.