I had some time to check further, there is an Ubuntu patch that makes ibus-gtk rather check whether this was an upgrade or not, and only makes the message display when upgrading from a very old version with the old hotkey.
Upstream has tagged this notabug in their bug tracker: https://code.google.com/archive/p/ibus/issues/1677 The Ubuntu patch can be obtained from this tarball: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+sourcefiles/ibus/1.5.11-1 ubuntu2.1/ibus_1.5.11-1ubuntu2.1.debian.tar.xz DSC: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+sourcefiles/ibus/1.5.11-1 ubuntu2.1/ibus_1.5.11-1ubuntu2.1.dsc Here is what it does: """ Description: don't show notification if not upgrading from a previous version Author: Marc Deslauriers <[email protected]> Bug: http://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=1677 Bug-Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ibus/+bug/1255542 Forwarded: yes Index: ibus-1.5.11/ui/gtk3/panel.vala =================================================================== --- ibus-1.5.11.orig/ui/gtk3/panel.vala +++ ibus-1.5.11/ui/gtk3/panel.vala @@ -753,6 +753,7 @@ class Panel : IBus.PanelService { string current_version = null; if (compare_versions(prev_version, "1.5.3") < 0) + if (prev_version != "" && compare_versions(prev_version, "1.5.3") < 0) update_version_1_5_3(); if (compare_versions(prev_version, "1.5.8") < 0) """ Please consider adding this patch in Debian too, it's a really big papercut and a deterrent to new users. Thanks!
