Simon has prepared a fix of this issue via a glib merge request:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/merge_requests/1176I applied the diff from that MR on top of glib2.0 2.62.1-1, and based on my limited tests it appears to fix the issue with IBus in Qt apps.
@Simon: Any thoughts on the status of your glib MR? Is it safe enough to patch glib2.0 in Debian, and with that fix this bug?
-- Gunnar Hjalmarsson https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj