I did some testing with the latest packages in the PPA.

On Ubuntu GNOME it worked as expected. Whether the display language is
English or Japanese, im-config starts IBus and sets ibus in the
variables, and I can type Japanese. gnome-language-selector behaves in
consistency with im-config.

On GNOME Flashback im-config seems to work as expected. When the display
language is English, im-config does not start IBus or change any
variables. When I start gnome-language-selector from the terminal, it
behaves in consistency with im-config.

However...

When I start gnome-language-selector from System Settings in GNOME
Flashback, gnome-language-selector thinks that the applicable system
default is "auto". Hence it shows that IBus is the selected IM
framework, and creates a ~/.xinputrc file stating ibus. The reason
proved to be that while XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP has the value "GNOME-
Flashback:Unity" in the terminal, XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP has the value
"Unity" when gnome-language-selector is started from the graphical
environment. This undesired behavior is not due to the proposed changes
in language-selector, but it's apparently there also with the current
version.

My view right now is that at least these two issues should be further
dealt with in separate bug reports:

* The incorrect XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP value in the graphical environment
of GNOME Flashback. (Dmitry?)

* The failure (first time) to change the display language from Region &
Language in Ubuntu GNOME. (Tim, if you can reproduce that problem,
please feel free to subscribe me to a bug report. Considering that it
worked after the language had been changed once using gnome-language-
selector, the required change should reasonably not be very extensive.)

Since those pending issues won't likely result in any further changes to
im-config or language-selector, personally I think the proposed packages
in the PPA should go to the xenial archive now. Let me know.

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