https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119967
--- Comment #18 from Yohei Yukawa yukawa@google.com --- Year. Me too. I'm a little tired to discuss ibus-mozc, which I'm no longer interested in. I made that patch which changes the default input mode 9 months ago (see the date of Issue 201). If I changed the default mode again, I bet I will be asked by someone else to change the default mode back to Direct mode from Hiragana mode, in 9 months or so. I guess this battle continues until someone provides a nice patch for ibus-mozc to make the initial mode customizable.
In case you overlooked it, you can change the initial mode of ibus-mozc if you don't hesitate to apply local modification and rebuild and replace ibus-mozc package with your own one. https://code.google.com/p/mozc/issues/detail?id=201#c19
I really appreciate your understanding and patience.