Comment 22 for bug 338217

Mario, the first time this bug was reported is over two years ago. Upstream is more or less dead. Ubuntu has moved to ibus.

This is a serious problem, but with an easy enough fix. Feel free to send a patch if you disagree with the proposed solution. I wish we could come up with a proper patch. But as things stand that is extremely unlikely to ever going to happen. Therefore, the best way to deal with this is to document the problem and the workaround and let the user handle it.

There's more rewarding fish to fry and most of them are easier to catch for the people who actually have the skills for properly fix this. Even if there was a fix, in the light of things, it may be bloat. I honestly believe that "rm -Rf ~/.scim" is the most appropriate way this problem should be handled, if and when it occurs. That's my jugment as the Debian maintainer of the scim (not the scim-bridge) package. You're entitled to have a different opinion, of course, and I would respect that.