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 * make all icons of the same size(s)
37 * Loading de_Userguide.lyx results in two parse errors:
38 Paragraph ended in line 21206
40 Paragraph ended in line 21301
42 I don't know if that is a lyx2lyx or LyX problem. LyX 1.4 can read the file.
44 * Change Tools->Preferences->User interface->User interface to something like
45 "kornel.default.ui"; save prefs; exit LyX; restart LyX; => crash;
46 in the preferences file, there is an entry \bind_file "/Something/kornel.default"
48 In QPrefsDialog.C:1736, function PrefUserInterface::select_ui() calls
49 form_->controller().browseUI(qstring_to_ucs4(uiFileED->text())))
52 browseLibFile(lyx::from_ascii("ui"), file, lyx::from_ascii("ui"),
53 _("Choose UI file"), FileFilterList(_("LyX UI files (*.ui)")));
54 In this function, the extension is removed, because it is the default ("ui" in
55 this case). This behaviour applies to
56 ControlPrefs::browsebind, ControlPrefs::browseUI
57 ControlPrefs::browsekbmap, ControlPrefs::browsedict
58 Setting the default extension here to something invalid, is a hack, but works.
59 (Invalid may be e.g. "*")
62 SPELL CHECKING (Joost 4/11/06)
64 * Words with umlauts or accents do not arrive as a whole word in the spell
66 PARTIALLY FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10): pspell should work (untested), ispell
67 works if lyxrc.isp_use_input_encoding == true, aspell works on linux,
68 cygwin and native windows (it is not clear yet whether it works on OS X).
69 ispell (if lyxrc.isp_use_input_encoding == false) does not work yet.
71 * The cursor does not go to the currently checked word (or maybe it goes,
72 but the screen is not updated so that one does not see the word).
74 * When replacing a misspelled word during spell checking, the screen is not
80 * In TOC, the buttons "Up", "Down", "Promote", and "Demote" are not
81 self-explaining. Why don't we group them in two pairs: Section Up/Down, Level
82 Up/Down? The arrangement of the buttons may also give some hint to the user.
84 * The items in the treeview are editable
89 * when opening an already opened document (or a document with newer backup),
90 the mouse pointer turns into a clock, although it waits for confirmation
92 * If you try to view a document as postscript that cannot be typeset because
93 of LaTeX errors and export to LaTeX afterwards you will get the old error
94 list again, although the export succeded.
99 * In the math control panel, there is no icon for the "Fractions" button.
101 * In the math control panel, the buttons are too small.
102 The reason is probably that qt resizes the icons so that they fit into the
103 button, leaving some margin. This leads to different scales for each icon.
104 qt3 did not resize the icons. Can this be set in qt4, too? MG: Why don't we
110 * The visual table size selection on the the "Insert Table" dialog has gone
113 * The UI for bullet selection in the documents settings looks weird
115 There is a big listbox just to select one of the four levels.
116 Isn't this supposed to be a drop-down list or something like that?
118 * The bullet selection widget shows the bullets in 5 columns (instead of 6)
119 for me, and hence does not fit into the window.
122 * The style name in the BibTeX Bibliography panel (near the Browse... button)
123 disappears after closing and reopening the panel.
127 MULTIPLE WINDOWS / DOCUMENTS
129 * There are cursor problems when the same document is opened in two windows
132 Information from Abdel:
133 Yes, this is the famous dEPM bug (delete Empty Paragraph Mechanism).
134 There are two ways to fix that:
135 1) the correct way: fix the dEPM to not invalidate the cursor.
136 2) the easy way: disable the cursor on focus out event and re-enable it at
137 focus in event and jump the saved position (at focus out).
140 TOOLBARS & MINIBUFFER
142 * When toolbars are hidden, they pop up again after clicking on the document
143 area (Joost 4/11/06).
144 Comment by Bo: Can not reproduce, details please.
149 * Tooltips are no longer shown
154 * Some oddities with View menu on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06): DVI does not appear
155 in the menu, even though a converter and viewer are defined in Preferences.
156 It turned out that this was a user error: a configuration file of 1.4 was
157 used without the document flag.
158 This should definitely be documented somewhere before the final release,
159 because many users will copy their old config files.
161 * Mysterious *.po entry:
163 #: src/frontends/qt4/ui/QViewSourceUi.ui:31
165 "<html><head><meta name=\"qrichtext\" content=\"1\" /></head><body style=\" "
166 "white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Sans Serif; font-size:13pt; font-"
167 "weight:400; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none;\"><p style=\"-qt-"
168 "paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; "
169 "margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;\"></p></body></html>"
172 * Graphics dialog: The order of fields is broken (when using <TAB> to jump from
173 one field to another)
178 * Create a document with an empty table; mark the whole table; insert a minipage
179 in order to have the table inside a minipage => crash
181 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; from the
182 environments combo box on the top left corner select anything, e.g., 'Part';
183 try to enter text => you can't!
184 MG: This must be a GUI problem; when using keyboard shortcuts (Alt-P-...),
185 the problem does not occur; it does not matter whether the cursor is in the last line
186 JSpitzm: The problem is that the workarea doesn't get focus after the combo selection.
188 * Open "de_Intro.lyx"; mark first word ("Einführung"); invoke "ert-insert" => seg fault
190 On Linux, valgrind reports:
192 ==23645== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
193 ==23645== at 0x825942D: lyx::(anonymous namespace)::numberOfHfills(lyx::Paragraph const&, lyx::Row const&) (paragraph.h:332)
194 ==23645== by 0x826250E: lyx::LyXText::computeRowMetrics(lyx::Buffer const&, int, lyx::Row const&) const (text.C:1307)
195 ==23645== by 0x826815F: lyx::LyXText::cursorX(lyx::Buffer const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool) const (text.C:2209)
196 ==23645== by 0x83A3072: lyx::InsetText::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insettext.C:343)
197 ==23645== by 0x833D909: lyx::InsetCollapsable::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insetcollapsable.C:245)
198 ==23645== by 0x81DE9AA: lyx::bv_funcs::coordOffset(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (cursor_slice.h:58)
199 ==23645== by 0x81DECC4: lyx::bv_funcs::getPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (bufferview_funcs.C:221)
200 ==23645== by 0x81FCBD4: lyx::LCursor::getPos(int&, int&) const (dociterator.h:125)
201 ==23645== by 0x81FFED5: lyx::LCursor::setTargetX() (cursor.C:938)
202 ==23645== by 0x82716EE: lyx::LyXText::setCursorIntern(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:722)
203 ==23645== by 0x8270EE2: lyx::LyXText::setCursor(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:687)
204 ==23645== by 0x8161333: lyx::cap::pasteParagraphList(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::RandomAccessList<lyx::Paragraph> const&, unsigned, lyx::ErrorList&) (CutAndPaste.C:630)
206 * edit->text style->capitalize/lower/upper case doesn't work due to change
207 tracking-related changes.
209 * insert->note->lyx note, enter a few chars, collapse the note. Copy the note
210 several times (three lines?), use mouse to select. Lyx crashes with
212 Assertion triggered in void lyx::LyXText::dispatch(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::FuncRequest&) by failing check "cur.text() == this" in file src/text3.C:323
214 NOTE: this is unrelated to the button face-lift patch.
216 * the insertion of Ctrl-Return cannot be undone
221 * No change bar is given in LaTeX output if (only) the par break has changed
223 * In tables, cut & paste (complete cells) do not support change tracking
225 * When accepting or rejecting changes, paragraphs with deleted par breaks are
226 not merged (in top-level pars & in nested text insets)
228 * When running "find & replace", the cursor is not moved forward, such
229 that LyX always offers to replace the same string
231 * LyX crashes if you want to accept/reject an end-of-par character only
236 * environments when using czech translation doesnt work: e.g.
237 itemize("Polozka") -> ERROR (layoutSelected): layout not found! (P. Sanda)
240 PAINTING & PERFORMANCE
242 * Open de_UserGuide.lyx; go to the end of the document; click into the footnote (with the mouse -
243 this is important for the test case); add a character into the note
244 => the complete footnote is expanded but only the current line is repainted
246 * In the splash screen, the LyX version number is printed with a very, very
247 small font size such that it becomes almost invisible on Windows.
249 * END_LABEL_* handling in RowPainer::paintLast() is broken. In regular text,
250 label boxes are not completely visible (because we shrinked the margin on
251 screen?). Inside of insets, they don't work at all.
253 * Too much painting 2 (Edwin 3/11/2006): There is also a lot of painting going
254 on when selecting text. When selecting a word the whole screen is repainted.
255 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): there's a full repaint only when the mouse is
256 released. More to come in this area.
258 * Too much painting 1 (Edwin 3/11/2006): when i click in the workarea (to put
259 the cursor in another part of the text) the screen is repainted *twice*
260 whereas it seems to me that no repainting is necessary at all.
261 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
263 * Too much painting 3 (Edwin 3/11/2006): the screen is repainted even when the
264 selection does not change (moving the mouse with the left button pushed down
265 always triggers a repaint).
266 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): When within the main text inset only the
267 current line is repainted.
269 * The cursor is not L-shaped for foreign languages
271 * Slowness on MAC 1 (Bennett 3/11/06):
272 There seems to be a fraction of a second lag between when I press a key and
273 when the letter appears on screen -- but the time lag doesn't obviously vary
274 with the amount of text on the screen (as was the case previously). Right now,
275 the speed of normal text entry makes LyX-1.5 usable on my
276 not-fast-but-still-not-outdated computer. (Not sure how it would be on my
277 slow-but-still-usable laptop.)
279 * Slowness on MAC 2 (Bennett 3/11/06):
280 Speed is still an issue typing in insets: noticeable lag between typing and
281 text appearing on screen. This does not seem to be compounded by having nested
282 insets, and it seems to be compounded only a little by the amount of text in
283 the inset. (This is especially a problem in math environments.)
284 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
286 * Slowness on MAC 3 (Bennett 3/11/06): Some operations that with 1.4 are
287 pretty much instantaneous (inserting a footnote, dragging the mouse, switching
288 to LyX from another application, opening dialogs, etc.) take quite a long time
291 * Some math symbols are not displayed (from Enrico Forestieri)
292 I noticed that some math symbols are not shown on screen. This seems
293 to be platform dependent. The following is a table illustrating the
294 situation on three different platforms. Here "no" means that the
295 symbol is not shown on screen (the symbol is invisible but occupies
296 space: it is as a sort of \phantom), and "yes" that it is shown.
297 ---------------------------------------
298 Symbol Linux Solaris Cygwin
299 ---------------------------------------
305 \spadesuit(*) yes no yes
306 ---------------------------------------
307 (*) On solaris, a square is shown on screen instead of nothing.
308 - Further comments from Georg: This is probably a qt4 font drawing problem,
309 since \Omega works fine in 1.4.3, and my debugging results showed that the
310 correct font is found and used (cmr10).
311 - Solved problem with \int and \oint on Windows (Enrico 2006-12-06).
317 * Many issues with toolbars on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
318 Most obvious of which are that icons are spaced too widely and that changes in
319 the visibility of the toolbars with the GUI do not stick after the screen is
322 * Many issue with dialogs on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
323 Most obviously: the Preferences dialog -- which can only be accessed now via
324 keyboard command, not from the menu -- appears initially too small and must be
325 resized; not possible to select buttons with the keyboard).
327 The prefs dialog size should be better now. See below (JSpitzm-2006-11-07).
329 * Menu bar disappears on MAC (instead of being disabled) when dialogs appear.
334 * There should be a close button on the tabs (Joost 3/11/06).
335 There is now a Qt feature request:
336 http://www.trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=137891&method=entry
338 * TODO toolbar popup menu, currently disabled (Peter 9/11/06)
340 * When content (sections/captions) is changed, the toc/lof/lot is not properly
342 Abdel 2006-11-17: This one is not as simple as it seems as it involves a
343 TocBackend update at each keystroke. Unless we manage to update a specific
344 TocItem, this will be a WONTFIX for 1.5.0.
346 * Start lyx, open a doc, open another window for the same
347 document. Now, from window A, click at paragraph X, scroll down to paragraph Y,
348 switch to window B, click, switch back to window A. When mouse moves, editXY()
349 finds the correct pit for paragraph Y, when click, editXY() finds paragraph X
350 and scroll back to it. (Bo, 12/14/2006)
351 Bo 2006-12-14: a resize is needed when switching between windows due to the
352 shared rows() structure. This triggers a full update and fit the screen to
353 text cursor. A proper fix is not possible without the separation of rows()
357 **********************************************************************
362 * Performance on Windows is bad. On my system, scrolling the User Guide takes
363 10 seconds with LyX 1.4 and more than 30 seconds with LyX 1.5.
365 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due to spurious message in QLPainter.C,
367 * When I have the same document in two windows, only the last selected paragraph
368 in one of the windows gets updated.
370 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due my singlePar optimization. With my last
371 commit, the optimization is enabled only if the WorkArea has the focus.
373 * No icon for "note-next" in the "review" toolbar.
375 ADDED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
377 * Branches gui broken (buttons do nothing).
379 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
381 * The title bar does not contain the document name when a new window is opened
384 FIXED (Abdel 05/11/06): This was due to "last_title" being a static variable
385 in LyXView::updateWindowTitle() and also due to a potential bug in Qt:
386 an update command to the window title seems to be ignored up until the window
389 * src/frontends/qt4/ui/QCitationUi.ui:70 "&Selected citations:" should be
390 "&Selected Citations:".
392 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
394 * In the "Math Delimiters" dialog, there is no need to repeat the term "Size"
395 for all values in the selection box; the label is already named "Size"
397 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
399 * If you open Document>Settings... or Tools>Preferences... for the first time,
400 the dialog is much too small to show its content; if you invoke it the second
401 time, everything is fine.
403 This happens with qt 4.2.1 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
405 FIXED (JSpitzm-2006-11-06): force updateGeometry() after the panelstack has
406 been created (with Qt >= 4.2 only). A brute method, but it works.
408 * If you open Edit>Test Style... for the first time, the choice text for
409 "Never Toggled>Size" doesn't fit in the selection box (note that in German,
410 texts are a bit longer than in English). Interestingly, if you invoke the
411 dialog a second time, its button sizes are adjusted to their content.
413 WONTFIX: This happens with qt >= 4.2 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
414 (or maybe try to add an updateGeometry() call somewhere as well; JSpitzm).
416 * All label and button texts in the Qt4 dialogs are not translated.
418 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07)
420 * Some English menu items don't have a '&' character. (box, date, paste...)
422 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07). I added shortcut whereever possible.
424 * When changing the toolbar settings in the right-button context menu of a
425 visible toolbar, the modified settings are not considered for session management
427 REPLACED with a new entry, popup disabled (Peter 2006-11-09)
429 * Toolbars always show on the top of the screen, even though they are set to
430 "bottom" in the ui file (Joost 3/11/06).
432 FIXED: use the defaul.ui value only when there is no valid position stored
433 (1st start of lyx) (Peter 7/11/2006)
435 * Window positions are not remembered correctly. Each time a window is openend
436 window again it has moved towards the bottom of the screen. (Joost 3/11/06)
438 FIXED (Peter 8/11/2006)
440 * Special handling of [[...]] in text messages is disabled in messages.C
441 FIXED (Georg 2006-11-12)
443 * broken signal/slot connection:
444 Object::connect: No such signal LengthCombo::selectionChanged(LyXLength::UNIT)
445 Object::connect: (sender name: 'unitCO')
446 Object::connect: (receiver name: 'QVSpaceUi')
448 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-12)
450 * Cursor is still not visible on MAC Bennett (3/11/06).
451 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-13)
453 * crash on Windows/Mac
455 2. insert List/TOC->Bibtex Bilio
456 3. add a bibliography
457 4. View Source ->crash
458 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-14)
460 * In the TOC dialog, switching between the different TOC types (TOC, Table,
461 Float, etc.) is broken.
464 * In the TOC dialog, the slider for altering the display level is
465 non-functional (not implemented).
466 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
468 * The correct list is not selected when right-clicking on a LOF or
470 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
472 * When selecting a type which *is* already selected, the content in the
473 browser window vanishes
474 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
476 * TOC crashes (simply make a few sections, subsections, sections; then add TOC
477 before all sections and click on the left button)
478 FIXED (Abdel, sometimes in november 2006).
480 * Items in the TOC cannot be moved using drag & drop (Joost 4/11/06).
481 WONTFIX (Abdel 2006-11-17): at least not for 1.5.0, this is just candy anyway.
483 * M-x is broken (does not bring up the minibuffer).
484 FIXED (Bo, 2006-11-18): set toolbar flag in display function.
486 * open a file; mark with the mouse and scroll; assert will fail:
487 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
489 * Selection highlighting is broken. Test case: two paragraphs with "Hello"
490 and "World"; move cursor past "Wor", press Shift+Up
491 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
493 * Mac Crash (Bennett 3/11/06):
494 On launch from GUI (by double-clicking on the LyX icon). As I reported before,
495 this happens only when using the GUI; I can successfully start LyX from the
496 Terminal, with or without gdb. Hence the only debug information I get is this,
497 printed out in Console.app when I try launching from the GUI (note that the
498 number changes everytime):
500 Wrong command line option `-psn_0_182321153'. Exiting.
502 Hint from Andreas Vox: LyX must accept any option starting with '-psn' and
503 pass it oon to the Qt initialisation. On Mac this gives the app a link to the
505 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-25): Arguments are now passed to QApplication.
507 * In the math control panel, "Detach panel" is broken (only 1 button is
508 visible in the detached panel).
509 FIXED (Edwin/Ugras 2006-11-XX)
511 * Command completion in the minibuffer shows a huge blank area below the proposed
512 commands. Clicking in that empty area crashes LyX.
515 * Copy/paste using middle mouse button inserts musical notes.
516 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11): Confirmed by Michael who couldn't reproduce on SuSE Linux 9.3)
518 * new document; insert note; place cursor in front of the note; activate change tracking;
519 press delete => assertion failed
520 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11)
522 * new document; insert note; insert "hello" into note; place the cursor at the beginning of the note;
523 activate change tracking; press backspace => seg fault
524 FIXED (Michael 2006-11-25)
526 * Mac Crash On quit (Bennett).
527 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-20)
529 * Drawing oddities on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
530 Lines occasionally overlapping vertically, math characters not properly
532 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11).
534 * Icons in the toolbars do not have the correct size, they are stretched a few
535 pixels compared to 1.4. This makes the images look jagged and the initial
536 window size has also become to small to show the whole toolbar
537 (Joost 4/11/06). See also the math panel buttons entry above.
538 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-28)
540 * The -geometry option doesn't work on Windows (it did in 1.4.x)
541 c:\> lyx-qt4.exe -geometry 800x600+100+30
542 Wrong command line option `-geometry'. Exiting.
543 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-29)
545 * When I "Save as..." in /tmp, I get a Backup error popup about non writable
546 /tmp, which is obviously not true. The file is there, and if I try to Save
547 as again, I get the overwrite popup warning twice: once in English, once
548 in French. (J. P. Chretien)
549 FIXED (Michael (found the problem), Georg (fix), 2006-11-30)
551 * It is ridiculous that you have to call configure with --with-frontend=qt4.
552 The existance of config/qt.m4 does not make much sense either.
553 The first one is FIXED, the second WONTFIX (JMarc 07-12-2006)
555 * Open de_Intro.lyx => The footnote text in the title section exceeds the
557 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-09). This was due to wrong metrics for small caps.
559 * Spell checking cannot be invoked a second time.
560 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). Abdel accidentally committed some test code in
561 revision 14970 which I reverted.
563 * The first time the spell checker is started, an empty window shown instead
564 of the first misspelled word.
565 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). This bug had the same resaon as the previous one.
567 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; click on the previous paragraph
568 with mouse to change the focus: lyx crashes. (happens on Win XP SP2,
569 MSVC 2005 Prof., Scons)
570 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-11)
572 * open lyx, create a new document, enter a few chars, quit, click cancel, lyx
574 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-12)
576 * Non-ascii filenames do not work at all and result in an assertion or garbage.
577 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-12).
579 * LyX tries to delete /tmp if it is called with invalid arguments
580 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-13)
582 * Start lyx, open a document, scroll down, open a new window, move
583 the cursor back, lyx crashes because par::rows() is cleared when the
584 new window is created.
585 FIXED (Bo 2006-12-13)