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 * especially this one: src/frontends/qt4/QPrefsDialog.C:944: warning: unused parameter 'nr'
29 * Watch for bugzilla.lyx.org entries
31 * Open bugs: http://tinyurl.com/y7hdzc
33 (unconfirmed/new/assigned/reopened + no enhancement + no 1.6.0 target + not 'fixedintrunk')
35 * Uncommitted patches: http://tinyurl.com/uvxat
37 (unconfirmed/new/assigned/reopened + no 1.6.0 target + keyword 'patch')
42 * make all icons of the same size(s)
47 * Change Tools->Preferences->User interface->User interface to something like
48 "kornel.default.ui"; save prefs; exit LyX; restart LyX; => crash;
49 in the preferences file, there is an entry \bind_file "/Something/kornel.default"
51 In QPrefsDialog.C:1736, function PrefUserInterface::select_ui() calls
52 form_->controller().browseUI(qstring_to_ucs4(uiFileED->text())))
55 browseLibFile(lyx::from_ascii("ui"), file, lyx::from_ascii("ui"),
56 _("Choose UI file"), FileFilterList(_("LyX UI files (*.ui)")));
57 In this function, the extension is removed, because it is the default ("ui" in
58 this case). This behaviour applies to
59 ControlPrefs::browsebind, ControlPrefs::browseUI
60 ControlPrefs::browsekbmap, ControlPrefs::browsedict
61 Setting the default extension here to something invalid, is a hack, but works.
62 (Invalid may be e.g. "*")
64 * When loading a LyX file from a Windows directory with a German Umlaut, I get the
67 Assertion triggered in __thiscall lyx::support::FileName::FileName(const class
68 std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > &)
69 by failing check "empty() || absolutePath(name_)" in file C:\...\src\support\filename.C:47
71 If I rename the directory (no Umlaut), I can load the file without a problem.
74 SPELL CHECKING (Joost 4/11/06)
76 * Words with umlauts or accents do not arrive as a whole word in the spell
78 PARTIALLY FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10): pspell should work (untested), ispell
79 works if lyxrc.isp_use_input_encoding == true, aspell works on linux,
80 cygwin and native windows (it is not clear yet whether it works on OS X).
81 ispell (if lyxrc.isp_use_input_encoding == false) does not work yet.
83 * The cursor does not go to the currently checked word (or maybe it goes,
84 but the screen is not updated so that one does not see the word).
86 * When replacing a misspelled word during spell checking, the screen is not
92 * In TOC, the buttons "Up", "Down", "Promote", and "Demote" are not
93 self-explaining. Why don't we group them in two pairs: Section Up/Down, Level
94 Up/Down? The arrangement of the buttons may also give some hint to the user.
96 * The items in the treeview are editable
101 * when opening an already opened document (or a document with newer backup),
102 the mouse pointer turns into a clock, although it waits for confirmation
104 * If you try to view a document as postscript that cannot be typeset because
105 of LaTeX errors and export to LaTeX afterwards you will get the old error
106 list again, although the export succeded.
108 * Open thesaurus dialog; look for keyword "hello" => seg fault
109 (on Windows, strictly following Joost's recipe with MSVC and Scons)
114 * In the math control panel, there is no icon for the "Fractions" button.
116 * In the math control panel, the buttons are too small.
117 The reason is probably that qt resizes the icons so that they fit into the
118 button, leaving some margin. This leads to different scales for each icon.
119 qt3 did not resize the icons. Can this be set in qt4, too? MG: Why don't we
125 * The visual table size selection on the the "Insert Table" dialog has gone
128 * The UI for bullet selection in the documents settings looks weird
130 There is a big listbox just to select one of the four levels.
131 Isn't this supposed to be a drop-down list or something like that?
133 * The bullet selection widget shows the bullets in 5 columns (instead of 6)
134 for me, and hence does not fit into the window.
137 * The style name in the BibTeX Bibliography panel (near the Browse... button)
138 disappears after closing and reopening the panel.
142 MULTIPLE WINDOWS / DOCUMENTS
144 * There are cursor problems when the same document is opened in two windows
147 Information from Abdel:
148 Yes, this is the famous dEPM bug (delete Empty Paragraph Mechanism).
149 There are two ways to fix that:
150 1) the correct way: fix the dEPM to not invalidate the cursor.
151 2) the easy way: disable the cursor on focus out event and re-enable it at
152 focus in event and jump the saved position (at focus out).
154 * Middle button paste does not work across windows. (Bo 12/15/06)
157 TOOLBARS & MINIBUFFER
159 * When toolbars are hidden, they pop up again after clicking on the document
160 area (Joost 4/11/06).
161 Comment by Bo: Can not reproduce, details please.
166 * Tooltips are no longer shown
171 * Some oddities with View menu on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06): DVI does not appear
172 in the menu, even though a converter and viewer are defined in Preferences.
173 It turned out that this was a user error: a configuration file of 1.4 was
174 used without the document flag.
175 This should definitely be documented somewhere before the final release,
176 because many users will copy their old config files.
181 * Create a document with an empty table; mark the whole table; insert a minipage
182 in order to have the table inside a minipage => crash
184 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; from the
185 environments combo box on the top left corner select anything, e.g., 'Part';
186 try to enter text => you can't!
187 MG: This must be a GUI problem; when using keyboard shortcuts (Alt-P-...),
188 the problem does not occur; it does not matter whether the cursor is in the last line
189 JSpitzm: The problem is that the workarea doesn't get focus after the combo selection.
191 * Open "de_Intro.lyx"; mark first word ("Einführung"); invoke "ert-insert" => seg fault
193 On Linux, valgrind reports:
195 ==23645== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
196 ==23645== at 0x825942D: lyx::(anonymous namespace)::numberOfHfills(lyx::Paragraph const&, lyx::Row const&) (paragraph.h:332)
197 ==23645== by 0x826250E: lyx::LyXText::computeRowMetrics(lyx::Buffer const&, int, lyx::Row const&) const (text.C:1307)
198 ==23645== by 0x826815F: lyx::LyXText::cursorX(lyx::Buffer const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool) const (text.C:2209)
199 ==23645== by 0x83A3072: lyx::InsetText::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insettext.C:343)
200 ==23645== by 0x833D909: lyx::InsetCollapsable::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insetcollapsable.C:245)
201 ==23645== by 0x81DE9AA: lyx::bv_funcs::coordOffset(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (cursor_slice.h:58)
202 ==23645== by 0x81DECC4: lyx::bv_funcs::getPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (bufferview_funcs.C:221)
203 ==23645== by 0x81FCBD4: lyx::LCursor::getPos(int&, int&) const (dociterator.h:125)
204 ==23645== by 0x81FFED5: lyx::LCursor::setTargetX() (cursor.C:938)
205 ==23645== by 0x82716EE: lyx::LyXText::setCursorIntern(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:722)
206 ==23645== by 0x8270EE2: lyx::LyXText::setCursor(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:687)
207 ==23645== by 0x8161333: lyx::cap::pasteParagraphList(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::RandomAccessList<lyx::Paragraph> const&, unsigned, lyx::ErrorList&) (CutAndPaste.C:630)
209 * edit->text style->capitalize/lower/upper case doesn't work due to change
210 tracking-related changes.
212 * insert->note->lyx note, enter a few chars, collapse the note. Copy the note
213 several times (three lines?), use mouse to select. Lyx crashes with
215 Assertion triggered in void lyx::LyXText::dispatch(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::FuncRequest&) by failing check "cur.text() == this" in file src/text3.C:323
217 NOTE: this is unrelated to the button face-lift patch.
219 * the insertion of Ctrl-Return cannot be undone
224 * No change bar is given in LaTeX output if (only) the par break has changed
226 * In tables, cut & paste (complete cells) do not support change tracking
228 * When accepting or rejecting changes, paragraphs with deleted par breaks are
229 not merged (in top-level pars & in nested text insets)
231 * When running "find & replace", the cursor is not moved forward, such
232 that LyX always offers to replace the same string
234 * LyX crashes if you want to accept/reject an end-of-par character only
239 * environments when using czech translation doesnt work: e.g.
240 itemize("Polozka") -> ERROR (layoutSelected): layout not found! (P. Sanda)
243 PAINTING & PERFORMANCE
245 * Open de_UserGuide.lyx; go to the end of the document; click into the footnote (with the mouse -
246 this is important for the test case); add a character into the note
247 => the complete footnote is expanded but only the current line is repainted
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.
347 **********************************************************************
352 * Performance on Windows is bad. On my system, scrolling the User Guide takes
353 10 seconds with LyX 1.4 and more than 30 seconds with LyX 1.5.
355 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due to spurious message in QLPainter.C,
357 * When I have the same document in two windows, only the last selected paragraph
358 in one of the windows gets updated.
360 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due my singlePar optimization. With my last
361 commit, the optimization is enabled only if the WorkArea has the focus.
363 * No icon for "note-next" in the "review" toolbar.
365 ADDED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
367 * Branches gui broken (buttons do nothing).
369 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
371 * The title bar does not contain the document name when a new window is opened
374 FIXED (Abdel 05/11/06): This was due to "last_title" being a static variable
375 in LyXView::updateWindowTitle() and also due to a potential bug in Qt:
376 an update command to the window title seems to be ignored up until the window
379 * src/frontends/qt4/ui/QCitationUi.ui:70 "&Selected citations:" should be
380 "&Selected Citations:".
382 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
384 * In the "Math Delimiters" dialog, there is no need to repeat the term "Size"
385 for all values in the selection box; the label is already named "Size"
387 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
389 * If you open Document>Settings... or Tools>Preferences... for the first time,
390 the dialog is much too small to show its content; if you invoke it the second
391 time, everything is fine.
393 This happens with qt 4.2.1 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
395 FIXED (JSpitzm-2006-11-06): force updateGeometry() after the panelstack has
396 been created (with Qt >= 4.2 only). A brute method, but it works.
398 * If you open Edit>Test Style... for the first time, the choice text for
399 "Never Toggled>Size" doesn't fit in the selection box (note that in German,
400 texts are a bit longer than in English). Interestingly, if you invoke the
401 dialog a second time, its button sizes are adjusted to their content.
403 WONTFIX: This happens with qt >= 4.2 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
404 (or maybe try to add an updateGeometry() call somewhere as well; JSpitzm).
406 * All label and button texts in the Qt4 dialogs are not translated.
408 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07)
410 * Some English menu items don't have a '&' character. (box, date, paste...)
412 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07). I added shortcut whereever possible.
414 * When changing the toolbar settings in the right-button context menu of a
415 visible toolbar, the modified settings are not considered for session management
417 REPLACED with a new entry, popup disabled (Peter 2006-11-09)
419 * Toolbars always show on the top of the screen, even though they are set to
420 "bottom" in the ui file (Joost 3/11/06).
422 FIXED: use the defaul.ui value only when there is no valid position stored
423 (1st start of lyx) (Peter 7/11/2006)
425 * Window positions are not remembered correctly. Each time a window is openend
426 window again it has moved towards the bottom of the screen. (Joost 3/11/06)
428 FIXED (Peter 8/11/2006)
430 * Special handling of [[...]] in text messages is disabled in messages.C
431 FIXED (Georg 2006-11-12)
433 * broken signal/slot connection:
434 Object::connect: No such signal LengthCombo::selectionChanged(LyXLength::UNIT)
435 Object::connect: (sender name: 'unitCO')
436 Object::connect: (receiver name: 'QVSpaceUi')
438 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-12)
440 * Cursor is still not visible on MAC Bennett (3/11/06).
441 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-13)
443 * crash on Windows/Mac
445 2. insert List/TOC->Bibtex Bilio
446 3. add a bibliography
447 4. View Source ->crash
448 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-14)
450 * In the TOC dialog, switching between the different TOC types (TOC, Table,
451 Float, etc.) is broken.
454 * In the TOC dialog, the slider for altering the display level is
455 non-functional (not implemented).
456 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
458 * The correct list is not selected when right-clicking on a LOF or
460 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
462 * When selecting a type which *is* already selected, the content in the
463 browser window vanishes
464 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
466 * TOC crashes (simply make a few sections, subsections, sections; then add TOC
467 before all sections and click on the left button)
468 FIXED (Abdel, sometimes in november 2006).
470 * Items in the TOC cannot be moved using drag & drop (Joost 4/11/06).
471 WONTFIX (Abdel 2006-11-17): at least not for 1.5.0, this is just candy anyway.
473 * M-x is broken (does not bring up the minibuffer).
474 FIXED (Bo, 2006-11-18): set toolbar flag in display function.
476 * open a file; mark with the mouse and scroll; assert will fail:
477 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
479 * Selection highlighting is broken. Test case: two paragraphs with "Hello"
480 and "World"; move cursor past "Wor", press Shift+Up
481 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
483 * Mac Crash (Bennett 3/11/06):
484 On launch from GUI (by double-clicking on the LyX icon). As I reported before,
485 this happens only when using the GUI; I can successfully start LyX from the
486 Terminal, with or without gdb. Hence the only debug information I get is this,
487 printed out in Console.app when I try launching from the GUI (note that the
488 number changes everytime):
490 Wrong command line option `-psn_0_182321153'. Exiting.
492 Hint from Andreas Vox: LyX must accept any option starting with '-psn' and
493 pass it oon to the Qt initialisation. On Mac this gives the app a link to the
495 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-25): Arguments are now passed to QApplication.
497 * In the math control panel, "Detach panel" is broken (only 1 button is
498 visible in the detached panel).
499 FIXED (Edwin/Ugras 2006-11-XX)
501 * Command completion in the minibuffer shows a huge blank area below the proposed
502 commands. Clicking in that empty area crashes LyX.
505 * Copy/paste using middle mouse button inserts musical notes.
506 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11): Confirmed by Michael who couldn't reproduce on SuSE Linux 9.3)
508 * new document; insert note; place cursor in front of the note; activate change tracking;
509 press delete => assertion failed
510 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11)
512 * new document; insert note; insert "hello" into note; place the cursor at the beginning of the note;
513 activate change tracking; press backspace => seg fault
514 FIXED (Michael 2006-11-25)
516 * Mac Crash On quit (Bennett).
517 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-20)
519 * Drawing oddities on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
520 Lines occasionally overlapping vertically, math characters not properly
522 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11).
524 * Icons in the toolbars do not have the correct size, they are stretched a few
525 pixels compared to 1.4. This makes the images look jagged and the initial
526 window size has also become to small to show the whole toolbar
527 (Joost 4/11/06). See also the math panel buttons entry above.
528 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-28)
530 * The -geometry option doesn't work on Windows (it did in 1.4.x)
531 c:\> lyx-qt4.exe -geometry 800x600+100+30
532 Wrong command line option `-geometry'. Exiting.
533 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-29)
535 * When I "Save as..." in /tmp, I get a Backup error popup about non writable
536 /tmp, which is obviously not true. The file is there, and if I try to Save
537 as again, I get the overwrite popup warning twice: once in English, once
538 in French. (J. P. Chretien)
539 FIXED (Michael (found the problem), Georg (fix), 2006-11-30)
541 * It is ridiculous that you have to call configure with --with-frontend=qt4.
542 The existance of config/qt.m4 does not make much sense either.
543 The first one is FIXED, the second WONTFIX (JMarc 07-12-2006)
545 * Open de_Intro.lyx => The footnote text in the title section exceeds the
547 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-09). This was due to wrong metrics for small caps.
549 * Spell checking cannot be invoked a second time.
550 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). Abdel accidentally committed some test code in
551 revision 14970 which I reverted.
553 * The first time the spell checker is started, an empty window shown instead
554 of the first misspelled word.
555 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). This bug had the same resaon as the previous one.
557 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; click on the previous paragraph
558 with mouse to change the focus: lyx crashes. (happens on Win XP SP2,
559 MSVC 2005 Prof., Scons)
560 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-11)
562 * open lyx, create a new document, enter a few chars, quit, click cancel, lyx
564 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-12)
566 * Non-ascii filenames do not work at all and result in an assertion or garbage.
567 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-12).
569 * LyX tries to delete /tmp if it is called with invalid arguments
570 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-13)
572 * Start lyx, open a document, scroll down, open a new window, move
573 the cursor back, lyx crashes because par::rows() is cleared when the
574 new window is created.
575 FIXED (Bo 2006-12-13)
577 * Start lyx, open a doc, open another window for the same
578 document. Now, from window A, click at paragraph X, scroll down to paragraph Y,
579 switch to window B, click, switch back to window A. When mouse moves, editXY()
580 finds the correct pit for paragraph Y, when click, editXY() finds paragraph X
581 and scroll back to it. (Bo, 12/14/2006)
582 FIXED (Abdel 2006-12-15)
584 * In the citation dialog, the shortcut for "&Find" does not work
585 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-17)
587 * Graphics dialog: The order of fields is broken (when using <TAB> to jump from
588 one field to another)
589 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-18)
591 * Mysterious *.po entry:
593 #: src/frontends/qt4/ui/QViewSourceUi.ui:31
595 "<html><head><meta name=\"qrichtext\" content=\"1\" /></head><body style=\" "
596 "white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Sans Serif; font-size:13pt; font-"
597 "weight:400; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none;\"><p style=\"-qt-"
598 "paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; "
599 "margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;\"></p></body></html>"
601 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-19)
603 * Loading de_Userguide.lyx results in two parse errors:
604 Paragraph ended in line 21206
606 Paragraph ended in line 21301
608 I don't know if that is a lyx2lyx or LyX problem. LyX 1.4 can read the file.
609 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-17). It turned out that it was a math parser problem
610 (bug 3034). It was introduced by the conversion of mathed to unicode,
611 because two methods Parser::tokenize() with different semantics existed.
613 * In the splash screen, the LyX version number is printed with a very, very
614 small font size such that it becomes almost invisible on Windows.
615 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-21)