[gnome-unstable] ibus doesnt work

Question

The new intergrated ibus in gnome-shell (which is one of my favorite features of 3.6) doesnt work. I can add the ibus keyboard (ibus-pinyin or Chinese (Pinyin)) in the system settings, but the settings opiton is grayed out (even though I know it has them), and when I switch to it and type all that comes out is qwerty (my default layout is dvorak)
this is relevant entries from  my .cache/gdm/session.log
(gnome-settings-daemon:649): keyboard-plugin-WARNING **: Couldn't set IBus engine: Operation was cancelled
(gnome-settings-daemon:649): keyboard-plugin-WARNING **: Couldn't set IBus engine: Operation was cancelled
(gnome-settings-daemon:649): keyboard-plugin-WARNING **: Couldn't set IBus engine: Operation was cancelled
(gnome-settings-daemon:649): keyboard-plugin-WARNING **: Couldn't set IBus engine: Operation was cancelled
(gnome-settings-daemon:649): keyboard-plugin-WARNING **: Couldn't set IBus engine: Operation was cancelled
when runing ibus-setup (after installing python2-xdg which it requires, but doesnt pull in from pacman, I get)
nathan@obadiah> ibus-setup                                                    ~
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/ibus/setup/main.py", line 545, in <module>
    setup = Setup()
  File "/usr/share/ibus/setup/main.py", line 75, in __init__
    self.__init_ui()
  File "/usr/share/ibus/setup/main.py", line 238, in __init_ui
    self.__init_hotkey()
  File "/usr/share/ibus/setup/main.py", line 84, in __init_hotkey
    values = dict(self.__config.get_values("general/hotkey"))
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_values'

Answer 1

ibus-anthy from the community repo doesn't work with ibus from gnome-unstable, either.
i copied some ibus PKGBUILD files from the aur and changed them to use the new ibus/anthy 1.4.99.20121006 from http://code.google.com/p/ibus:
ibus: http://pastebin.com/aSUSJmQj
ibus-anthy: http://pastebin.com/mP15BunH
seems to works fine now (using gnome 3.6 btw).