Jimmy Johnson wrote:

> I don't know about q4os, but dbus is in devuan and I have it installed.

this does not mean anything regarding the OPs question. TDE is using dbus in
very limited fashion, so my bet is, that it is not relevant to the input
methods at all, while ibus seems to be using dbus extensively. it might be
that GTK or KDE4 by having dbus integrated, may work also with ibus

regards