5 1. Bugs that aim for 1.5.0 should be listed here.
6 2. Whoever fixes a bug sign his name before the bug and move it to the end of
7 this file, along with a lyx-devel announcement.
9 Prizes (donated by Michael):
11 #1: LyX-labeled Tick Tock Wall Clock
12 #2: LyX-labeled Coffee and Tea Mug
13 #3: LyX-labeled Mousepad
16 **********************************************************************
23 * Check FIXME, TODO, and #warning in the LyX code
25 * Resolve compiler warnings
27 * Watch for bugzilla.lyx.org entries
32 * LyX tries to delete /tmp if it is called with invalid arguments
34 * Loading de_Userguide.lyx results in two parse errors:
35 Paragraph ended in line 21206
37 Paragraph ended in line 21301
39 I don't know if that is a lyx2lyx or LyX problem. LyX 1.4 can read the file.
41 * Non-ascii filenames do not work at all and result in an assertion or garbage.
43 * open lyx, create a new document, enter a few chars, quit, click cancel, lyx
46 * Change Tools->Preferences->User interface->User interface to something like
47 "kornel.default.ui"; save prefs; exit LyX; restart LyX; => crash;
48 in the preferences file, there is an entry \bind_file "/Something/kornel.default"
50 In QPrefsDialog.C:1736, function PrefUserInterface::select_ui() calls
51 form_->controller().browseUI(qstring_to_ucs4(uiFileED->text())))
54 browseLibFile(lyx::from_ascii("ui"), file, lyx::from_ascii("ui"),
55 _("Choose UI file"), FileFilterList(_("LyX UI files (*.ui)")));
56 In this function, the extension is removed, because it is the default ("ui" in
57 this case). This behaviour applies to
58 ControlPrefs::browsebind, ControlPrefs::browseUI
59 ControlPrefs::browsekbmap, ControlPrefs::browsedict
60 Setting the default extension here to something invalid, is a hack, but works.
61 (Invalid may be e.g. "*")
64 SPELL CHECKING (Joost 4/11/06)
66 * Spell checking cannot be invoked a second time.
68 * The first time the spell checker is started, an empty window shown instead
69 of the first misspelled word.
71 * Words with umlauts or accents do not arrive as a whole word in the spell
77 * In TOC, the buttons "Up", "Down", "Promote", and "Demote" are not
78 self-explaining. Why don't we group them in two pairs: Section Up/Down, Level
79 Up/Down? The arrangement of the buttons may also give some hint to the user.
81 * The items in the treeview are editable
86 * when opening an already opened document (or a document with newer backup),
87 the mouse pointer turns into a clock, although it waits for confirmation
89 * If you try to view a document as postscript that cannot be typeset because
90 of LaTeX errors and export to LaTeX afterwards you will get the old error
91 list again, although the export succeded.
96 * In the math control panel, there is no icon for the "Fractions" button.
98 * In the math control panel, the buttons are too small.
99 The reason is probably that qt resizes the icons so that they fit into the
100 button, leaving some margin. This leads to different scales for each icon.
101 qt3 did not resize the icons. Can this be set in qt4, too? MG: Why don't we
107 * The visual table size selection on the the "Insert Table" dialog has gone
110 * The UI for bullet selection in the documents settings looks weird
112 There is a big listbox just to select one of the four levels.
113 Isn't this supposed to be a drop-down list or something like that?
115 * The bullet selection widget shows the bullets in 5 columns (instead of 6)
116 for me, and hence does not fit into the window.
119 * The style name in the BibTeX Bibliography panel (near the Browse... button)
120 disappears after closing and reopening the panel.
124 MULTIPLE WINDOWS / DOCUMENTS
126 * There are cursor problems when the same document is opened in two windows
129 Information from Abdel:
130 Yes, this is the famous dEPM bug (delete Empty Paragraph Mechanism).
131 There are two ways to fix that:
132 1) the correct way: fix the dEPM to not invalidate the cursor.
133 2) the easy way: disable the cursor on focus out event and re-enable it at
134 focus in event and jump the saved position (at focus out).
137 TOOLBARS & MINIBUFFER
139 * When toolbars are hidden, they pop up again after clicking on the document
140 area (Joost 4/11/06).
141 Comment by Bo: Can not reproduce, details please.
146 * Tooltips are no longer shown
151 * Some oddities with View menu on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06): DVI does not appear
152 in the menu, even though a converter and viewer are defined in Preferences.
153 It turned out that this was a user error: a configuration file of 1.4 was
154 used without the document flag.
155 This should definitely be documented somewhere before the final release,
156 because many users will copy their old config files.
158 * Mysterious *.po entry:
160 #: src/frontends/qt4/ui/QViewSourceUi.ui:31
162 "<html><head><meta name=\"qrichtext\" content=\"1\" /></head><body style=\" "
163 "white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Sans Serif; font-size:13pt; font-"
164 "weight:400; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none;\"><p style=\"-qt-"
165 "paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; "
166 "margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;\"></p></body></html>"
172 * Open "de_Intro.lyx"; mark first word ("Einführung"); invoke "ert-insert" => seg fault
174 On Linux, valgrind reports:
176 ==23645== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
177 ==23645== at 0x825942D: lyx::(anonymous namespace)::numberOfHfills(lyx::Paragraph const&, lyx::Row const&) (paragraph.h:332)
178 ==23645== by 0x826250E: lyx::LyXText::computeRowMetrics(lyx::Buffer const&, int, lyx::Row const&) const (text.C:1307)
179 ==23645== by 0x826815F: lyx::LyXText::cursorX(lyx::Buffer const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool) const (text.C:2209)
180 ==23645== by 0x83A3072: lyx::InsetText::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insettext.C:343)
181 ==23645== by 0x833D909: lyx::InsetCollapsable::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insetcollapsable.C:245)
182 ==23645== by 0x81DE9AA: lyx::bv_funcs::coordOffset(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (cursor_slice.h:58)
183 ==23645== by 0x81DECC4: lyx::bv_funcs::getPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (bufferview_funcs.C:221)
184 ==23645== by 0x81FCBD4: lyx::LCursor::getPos(int&, int&) const (dociterator.h:125)
185 ==23645== by 0x81FFED5: lyx::LCursor::setTargetX() (cursor.C:938)
186 ==23645== by 0x82716EE: lyx::LyXText::setCursorIntern(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:722)
187 ==23645== by 0x8270EE2: lyx::LyXText::setCursor(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:687)
188 ==23645== by 0x8161333: lyx::cap::pasteParagraphList(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::RandomAccessList<lyx::Paragraph> const&, unsigned, lyx::ErrorList&) (CutAndPaste.C:630)
190 * edit->text style->capitalize/lower/upper case doesn't work due to change
191 tracking-related changes.
193 * insert->note->lyx note, enter a few chars, collapse the note. Copy the note
194 several times (three lines?), use mouse to select. Lyx crashes with
196 Assertion triggered in void lyx::LyXText::dispatch(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::FuncRequest&) by failing check "cur.text() == this" in file src/text3.C:323
198 NOTE: this is unrelated to the button face-lift patch.
203 * No change bar is given in LaTeX output if (only) the par break has changed
205 * In tables, cut & paste (complete cells) do not support change tracking
207 * When accepting or rejecting changes, paragraphs with deleted par breaks are
208 not merged (in top-level pars & in nested text insets)
210 * When running "find & replace", the cursor is not moved forward, such
211 that LyX always offers to replace the same string
213 * LyX crashes if you want to accept/reject an end-of-par character only
218 * environments when using czech translation doesnt work: e.g.
219 itemize("Polozka") -> ERROR (layoutSelected): layout not found! (P. Sanda)
222 PAINTING & PERFORMANCE
224 * Open de_UserGuide.lyx; go to the end of the document; click into the footnote (with the mouse -
225 this is important for the test case); add a character into the note
226 => the complete footnote is expanded but only the current line is repainted
228 * In the splash screen, the LyX version number is printed with a very, very
229 small font size such that it becomes almost invisible on Windows.
231 * END_LABEL_* handling in RowPainer::paintLast() is broken. In regular text,
232 label boxes are not completely visible (because we shrinked the margin on
233 screen?). Inside of insets, they don't work at all.
235 * Too much painting 2 (Edwin 3/11/2006): There is also a lot of painting going
236 on when selecting text. When selecting a word the whole screen is repainted.
237 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): there's a full repaint only when the mouse is
238 released. More to come in this area.
240 * Too much painting 1 (Edwin 3/11/2006): when i click in the workarea (to put
241 the cursor in another part of the text) the screen is repainted *twice*
242 whereas it seems to me that no repainting is necessary at all.
243 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
245 * Too much painting 3 (Edwin 3/11/2006): the screen is repainted even when the
246 selection does not change (moving the mouse with the left button pushed down
247 always triggers a repaint).
248 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): When within the main text inset only the
249 current line is repainted.
251 * The cursor is not L-shaped for foreign languages
253 * Slowness on MAC 1 (Bennett 3/11/06):
254 There seems to be a fraction of a second lag between when I press a key and
255 when the letter appears on screen -- but the time lag doesn't obviously vary
256 with the amount of text on the screen (as was the case previously). Right now,
257 the speed of normal text entry makes LyX-1.5 usable on my
258 not-fast-but-still-not-outdated computer. (Not sure how it would be on my
259 slow-but-still-usable laptop.)
261 * Slowness on MAC 2 (Bennett 3/11/06):
262 Speed is still an issue typing in insets: noticeable lag between typing and
263 text appearing on screen. This does not seem to be compounded by having nested
264 insets, and it seems to be compounded only a little by the amount of text in
265 the inset. (This is especially a problem in math environments.)
266 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
268 * Slowness on MAC 3 (Bennett 3/11/06): Some operations that with 1.4 are
269 pretty much instantaneous (inserting a footnote, dragging the mouse, switching
270 to LyX from another application, opening dialogs, etc.) take quite a long time
273 * Some math symbols are not displayed (from Enrico Forestieri)
274 I noticed that some math symbols are not shown on screen. This seems
275 to be platform dependent. The following is a table illustrating the
276 situation on three different platforms. Here "no" means that the
277 symbol is not shown on screen (the symbol is invisible but occupies
278 space: it is as a sort of \phantom), and "yes" that it is shown.
279 ---------------------------------------
280 Symbol Linux Solaris Cygwin
281 ---------------------------------------
287 \spadesuit(*) yes no yes
288 ---------------------------------------
289 (*) On solaris, a square is shown on screen instead of nothing.
290 - Further comments from Georg: This is probably a qt4 font drawing problem,
291 since \Omega works fine in 1.4.3, and my debugging results showed that the
292 correct font is found and used (cmr10).
293 - Solved problem with \int and \oint on Windows (Enrico 2006-12-06).
299 * Many issues with toolbars on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
300 Most obvious of which are that icons are spaced too widely and that changes in
301 the visibility of the toolbars with the GUI do not stick after the screen is
304 * Many issue with dialogs on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
305 Most obviously: the Preferences dialog -- which can only be accessed now via
306 keyboard command, not from the menu -- appears initially too small and must be
307 resized; not possible to select buttons with the keyboard).
309 The prefs dialog size should be better now. See below (JSpitzm-2006-11-07).
311 * Menu bar disappears on MAC (instead of being disabled) when dialogs appear.
316 * There should be a close button on the tabs (Joost 3/11/06).
317 There is now a Qt feature request:
318 http://www.trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=137891&method=entry
320 * TODO toolbar popup menu, currently disabled (Peter 9/11/06)
322 * When content (sections/captions) is changed, the toc/lof/lot is not properly
324 Abdel 2006-11-17: This one is not as simple as it seems as it involves a
325 TocBackend update at each keystroke. Unless we manage to update a specific
326 TocItem, this will be a WONTFIX for 1.5.0.
329 **********************************************************************
334 * Performance on Windows is bad. On my system, scrolling the User Guide takes
335 10 seconds with LyX 1.4 and more than 30 seconds with LyX 1.5.
337 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due to spurious message in QLPainter.C,
339 * When I have the same document in two windows, only the last selected paragraph
340 in one of the windows gets updated.
342 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due my singlePar optimization. With my last
343 commit, the optimization is enabled only if the WorkArea has the focus.
345 * No icon for "note-next" in the "review" toolbar.
347 ADDED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
349 * Branches gui broken (buttons do nothing).
351 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
353 * The title bar does not contain the document name when a new window is opened
356 FIXED (Abdel 05/11/06): This was due to "last_title" being a static variable
357 in LyXView::updateWindowTitle() and also due to a potential bug in Qt:
358 an update command to the window title seems to be ignored up until the window
361 * src/frontends/qt4/ui/QCitationUi.ui:70 "&Selected citations:" should be
362 "&Selected Citations:".
364 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
366 * In the "Math Delimiters" dialog, there is no need to repeat the term "Size"
367 for all values in the selection box; the label is already named "Size"
369 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
371 * If you open Document>Settings... or Tools>Preferences... for the first time,
372 the dialog is much too small to show its content; if you invoke it the second
373 time, everything is fine.
375 This happens with qt 4.2.1 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
377 FIXED (JSpitzm-2006-11-06): force updateGeometry() after the panelstack has
378 been created (with Qt >= 4.2 only). A brute method, but it works.
380 * If you open Edit>Test Style... for the first time, the choice text for
381 "Never Toggled>Size" doesn't fit in the selection box (note that in German,
382 texts are a bit longer than in English). Interestingly, if you invoke the
383 dialog a second time, its button sizes are adjusted to their content.
385 WONTFIX: This happens with qt >= 4.2 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
386 (or maybe try to add an updateGeometry() call somewhere as well; JSpitzm).
388 * All label and button texts in the Qt4 dialogs are not translated.
390 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07)
392 * Some English menu items don't have a '&' character. (box, date, paste...)
394 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07). I added shortcut whereever possible.
396 * When changing the toolbar settings in the right-button context menu of a
397 visible toolbar, the modified settings are not considered for session management
399 REPLACED with a new entry, popup disabled (Peter 2006-11-09)
401 * Toolbars always show on the top of the screen, even though they are set to
402 "bottom" in the ui file (Joost 3/11/06).
404 FIXED: use the defaul.ui value only when there is no valid position stored
405 (1st start of lyx) (Peter 7/11/2006)
407 * Window positions are not remembered correctly. Each time a window is openend
408 window again it has moved towards the bottom of the screen. (Joost 3/11/06)
410 FIXED (Peter 8/11/2006)
412 * Special handling of [[...]] in text messages is disabled in messages.C
413 FIXED (Georg 2006-11-12)
415 * broken signal/slot connection:
416 Object::connect: No such signal LengthCombo::selectionChanged(LyXLength::UNIT)
417 Object::connect: (sender name: 'unitCO')
418 Object::connect: (receiver name: 'QVSpaceUi')
420 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-12)
422 * Cursor is still not visible on MAC Bennett (3/11/06).
423 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-13)
425 * crash on Windows/Mac
427 2. insert List/TOC->Bibtex Bilio
428 3. add a bibliography
429 4. View Source ->crash
430 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-14)
432 * In the TOC dialog, switching between the different TOC types (TOC, Table,
433 Float, etc.) is broken.
436 * In the TOC dialog, the slider for altering the display level is
437 non-functional (not implemented).
438 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
440 * The correct list is not selected when right-clicking on a LOF or
442 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
444 * When selecting a type which *is* already selected, the content in the
445 browser window vanishes
446 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
448 * TOC crashes (simply make a few sections, subsections, sections; then add TOC
449 before all sections and click on the left button)
450 FIXED (Abdel, sometimes in november 2006).
452 * Items in the TOC cannot be moved using drag & drop (Joost 4/11/06).
453 WONTFIX (Abdel 2006-11-17): at least not for 1.5.0, this is just candy anyway.
455 * M-x is broken (does not bring up the minibuffer).
456 FIXED (Bo, 2006-11-18): set toolbar flag in display function.
458 * open a file; mark with the mouse and scroll; assert will fail:
459 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
461 * Selection highlighting is broken. Test case: two paragraphs with "Hello"
462 and "World"; move cursor past "Wor", press Shift+Up
463 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
465 * Mac Crash (Bennett 3/11/06):
466 On launch from GUI (by double-clicking on the LyX icon). As I reported before,
467 this happens only when using the GUI; I can successfully start LyX from the
468 Terminal, with or without gdb. Hence the only debug information I get is this,
469 printed out in Console.app when I try launching from the GUI (note that the
470 number changes everytime):
472 Wrong command line option `-psn_0_182321153'. Exiting.
474 Hint from Andreas Vox: LyX must accept any option starting with '-psn' and
475 pass it oon to the Qt initialisation. On Mac this gives the app a link to the
477 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-25): Arguments are now passed to QApplication.
479 * In the math control panel, "Detach panel" is broken (only 1 button is
480 visible in the detached panel).
481 FIXED (Edwin/Ugras 2006-11-XX)
483 * Command completion in the minibuffer shows a huge blank area below the proposed
484 commands. Clicking in that empty area crashes LyX.
487 * Copy/paste using middle mouse button inserts musical notes.
488 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11): Confirmed by Michael who couldn't reproduce on SuSE Linux 9.3)
490 * new document; insert note; place cursor in front of the note; activate change tracking;
491 press delete => assertion failed
492 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11)
494 * new document; insert note; insert "hello" into note; place the cursor at the beginning of the note;
495 activate change tracking; press backspace => seg fault
496 FIXED (Michael 2006-11-25)
498 * Mac Crash On quit (Bennett).
499 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-20)
501 * Drawing oddities on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
502 Lines occasionally overlapping vertically, math characters not properly
504 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11).
506 * Icons in the toolbars do not have the correct size, they are stretched a few
507 pixels compared to 1.4. This makes the images look jagged and the initial
508 window size has also become to small to show the whole toolbar
509 (Joost 4/11/06). See also the math panel buttons entry above.
510 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-28)
512 * The -geometry option doesn't work on Windows (it did in 1.4.x)
513 c:\> lyx-qt4.exe -geometry 800x600+100+30
514 Wrong command line option `-geometry'. Exiting.
515 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-29)
517 * When I "Save as..." in /tmp, I get a Backup error popup about non writable
518 /tmp, which is obviously not true. The file is there, and if I try to Save
519 as again, I get the overwrite popup warning twice: once in English, once
520 in French. (J. P. Chretien)
521 FIXED (Michael (found the problem), Georg (fix), 2006-11-30)
523 * It is ridiculous that you have to call configure with --with-frontend=qt4.
524 The existance of config/qt.m4 does not make much sense either.
525 The first one is FIXED, the second WONTFIX (JMarc 07-12-2006)
527 * Open de_Intro.lyx => The footnote text in the title section exceeds the
529 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-09). This was due to wrong metrics for small caps.