After  looking at Qt4 / Qt5 source code and doing some internet search I see 
that ibus plugin has become a part of Qt, where in Qt4 it was a separate plugin 
hosted somewhere else..

Qt4 offered two options XIM and IBUS, selectable by using 'qtconfig' tool, 
currently Qt5 has support only for ibus as input method framework (IMF) , which 
does look like a great IM framework, but is it complete enough to be the only 
available option in Qt for desktop?

It's very important to the Qt project that input works well for all users 
without exhausting tweaking, but at the present it is quite frustrating with 
ibus-setup GUI tool which almost never does what you tell it to do.

It seems that the latest ibus release supports good additions like:

- Improve IME switch UI
- Integrate IME and XKB keyboard layouts. Now ibus can manage both IME and XKB 
layouts.
etc.

AFAIK linux distros doesn't ship by default this version yet.

I don't know if there has been any decision regarding this.. I was wondering if 
we should bring back xinput support in XCB plugin? [1]

[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/2013-January/008059.html
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