Description of problem: Although I have configured ibus with two input methods (English and Japanese-mozc) and switching between them and using them works in other applications, I cannot switch to Japanese-mozc when inside a telepathy-text-ui chat window. Nor can I type Japanese when switching to mozc before entering the chat window. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ktp-text-ui.0.3.1-1.fc17.x86_64 This is in KDE 4.8.3 (the standard Fedora 17 / KDE, fully updated). How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: There must be many ways to reproduce it, but here is how it works for me. Note that this is based on the fact that using the Empathy IM client causes telepathy-text-ui chat windows to be opened when a message is received. This is probably in itself a bug (as reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ktp-text-ui/+bug/951104). 1. Configure ibus with English and Japanese-mozc. Confirm that switching input methods works, e.g. in Konsole. 2. Install Empathy and configure an account, e.g. a GTalk one 3. Ask someone to send you a message 4. Wait for the message alert to pop up from the system tray 5. Click on it to accept the message 6. A Telepathy-text-ui chat window will open. Try switching input methods and typing some Japanese text. For example, try typing (n-i-h-o-n-<enter>). This should cause にほん to be entered in the chat window. Actual results: The Japanese input method does not work. Only English does. Expected results: After switching to Japanese input, typing Japanese should be possible. For example, the key sequence above should give "にほん", not "nihon".
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I just confirmed that in Fedora 19, the problem described above does not occur, i.e. telepathy is opened, but using Japanese inside telepathy works. (I never tested with Fedora 18.) So, while it was never fixed in Fedora 17, in terms of Fedora's overall development it can be considered a solved problem.
Thank you for re-testing