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
29 http://tinyurl.com/yaa7dr
34 * make all icons of the same size(s)
39 * Loading de_Userguide.lyx results in two parse errors:
40 Paragraph ended in line 21206
42 Paragraph ended in line 21301
44 I don't know if that is a lyx2lyx or LyX problem. LyX 1.4 can read the file.
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. "*")
63 * When loading a LyX file from a Windows directory with a German Umlaut, I get the
66 Assertion triggered in __thiscall lyx::support::FileName::FileName(const class
67 std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > &)
68 by failing check "empty() || absolutePath(name_)" in file C:\...\src\support\filename.C:47
70 If I rename the directory (no Umlaut), I can load the file without a problem.
73 SPELL CHECKING (Joost 4/11/06)
75 * Words with umlauts or accents do not arrive as a whole word in the spell
77 PARTIALLY FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10): pspell should work (untested), ispell
78 works if lyxrc.isp_use_input_encoding == true, aspell works on linux,
79 cygwin and native windows (it is not clear yet whether it works on OS X).
80 ispell (if lyxrc.isp_use_input_encoding == false) does not work yet.
82 * The cursor does not go to the currently checked word (or maybe it goes,
83 but the screen is not updated so that one does not see the word).
85 * When replacing a misspelled word during spell checking, the screen is not
91 * In TOC, the buttons "Up", "Down", "Promote", and "Demote" are not
92 self-explaining. Why don't we group them in two pairs: Section Up/Down, Level
93 Up/Down? The arrangement of the buttons may also give some hint to the user.
95 * The items in the treeview are editable
100 * when opening an already opened document (or a document with newer backup),
101 the mouse pointer turns into a clock, although it waits for confirmation
103 * If you try to view a document as postscript that cannot be typeset because
104 of LaTeX errors and export to LaTeX afterwards you will get the old error
105 list again, although the export succeded.
107 * Open thesaurus dialog; look for keyword "hello" => seg fault
108 (on Windows, strictly following Joost's recipe with MSVC and Scons)
113 * In the math control panel, there is no icon for the "Fractions" button.
115 * In the math control panel, the buttons are too small.
116 The reason is probably that qt resizes the icons so that they fit into the
117 button, leaving some margin. This leads to different scales for each icon.
118 qt3 did not resize the icons. Can this be set in qt4, too? MG: Why don't we
124 * The visual table size selection on the the "Insert Table" dialog has gone
127 * The UI for bullet selection in the documents settings looks weird
129 There is a big listbox just to select one of the four levels.
130 Isn't this supposed to be a drop-down list or something like that?
132 * The bullet selection widget shows the bullets in 5 columns (instead of 6)
133 for me, and hence does not fit into the window.
136 * The style name in the BibTeX Bibliography panel (near the Browse... button)
137 disappears after closing and reopening the panel.
140 * In the citation dialog, the shortcut for "&Find" does not work
143 MULTIPLE WINDOWS / DOCUMENTS
145 * There are cursor problems when the same document is opened in two windows
148 Information from Abdel:
149 Yes, this is the famous dEPM bug (delete Empty Paragraph Mechanism).
150 There are two ways to fix that:
151 1) the correct way: fix the dEPM to not invalidate the cursor.
152 2) the easy way: disable the cursor on focus out event and re-enable it at
153 focus in event and jump the saved position (at focus out).
155 * Middle button paste does not work across windows. (Bo 12/15/06)
158 TOOLBARS & MINIBUFFER
160 * When toolbars are hidden, they pop up again after clicking on the document
161 area (Joost 4/11/06).
162 Comment by Bo: Can not reproduce, details please.
167 * Tooltips are no longer shown
172 * Some oddities with View menu on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06): DVI does not appear
173 in the menu, even though a converter and viewer are defined in Preferences.
174 It turned out that this was a user error: a configuration file of 1.4 was
175 used without the document flag.
176 This should definitely be documented somewhere before the final release,
177 because many users will copy their old config files.
179 * Mysterious *.po entry:
181 #: src/frontends/qt4/ui/QViewSourceUi.ui:31
183 "<html><head><meta name=\"qrichtext\" content=\"1\" /></head><body style=\" "
184 "white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Sans Serif; font-size:13pt; font-"
185 "weight:400; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none;\"><p style=\"-qt-"
186 "paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; "
187 "margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;\"></p></body></html>"
190 * Graphics dialog: The order of fields is broken (when using <TAB> to jump from
191 one field to another)
196 * Create a document with an empty table; mark the whole table; insert a minipage
197 in order to have the table inside a minipage => crash
199 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; from the
200 environments combo box on the top left corner select anything, e.g., 'Part';
201 try to enter text => you can't!
202 MG: This must be a GUI problem; when using keyboard shortcuts (Alt-P-...),
203 the problem does not occur; it does not matter whether the cursor is in the last line
204 JSpitzm: The problem is that the workarea doesn't get focus after the combo selection.
206 * Open "de_Intro.lyx"; mark first word ("Einführung"); invoke "ert-insert" => seg fault
208 On Linux, valgrind reports:
210 ==23645== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
211 ==23645== at 0x825942D: lyx::(anonymous namespace)::numberOfHfills(lyx::Paragraph const&, lyx::Row const&) (paragraph.h:332)
212 ==23645== by 0x826250E: lyx::LyXText::computeRowMetrics(lyx::Buffer const&, int, lyx::Row const&) const (text.C:1307)
213 ==23645== by 0x826815F: lyx::LyXText::cursorX(lyx::Buffer const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool) const (text.C:2209)
214 ==23645== by 0x83A3072: lyx::InsetText::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insettext.C:343)
215 ==23645== by 0x833D909: lyx::InsetCollapsable::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insetcollapsable.C:245)
216 ==23645== by 0x81DE9AA: lyx::bv_funcs::coordOffset(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (cursor_slice.h:58)
217 ==23645== by 0x81DECC4: lyx::bv_funcs::getPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (bufferview_funcs.C:221)
218 ==23645== by 0x81FCBD4: lyx::LCursor::getPos(int&, int&) const (dociterator.h:125)
219 ==23645== by 0x81FFED5: lyx::LCursor::setTargetX() (cursor.C:938)
220 ==23645== by 0x82716EE: lyx::LyXText::setCursorIntern(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:722)
221 ==23645== by 0x8270EE2: lyx::LyXText::setCursor(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:687)
222 ==23645== by 0x8161333: lyx::cap::pasteParagraphList(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::RandomAccessList<lyx::Paragraph> const&, unsigned, lyx::ErrorList&) (CutAndPaste.C:630)
224 * edit->text style->capitalize/lower/upper case doesn't work due to change
225 tracking-related changes.
227 * insert->note->lyx note, enter a few chars, collapse the note. Copy the note
228 several times (three lines?), use mouse to select. Lyx crashes with
230 Assertion triggered in void lyx::LyXText::dispatch(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::FuncRequest&) by failing check "cur.text() == this" in file src/text3.C:323
232 NOTE: this is unrelated to the button face-lift patch.
234 * the insertion of Ctrl-Return cannot be undone
239 * No change bar is given in LaTeX output if (only) the par break has changed
241 * In tables, cut & paste (complete cells) do not support change tracking
243 * When accepting or rejecting changes, paragraphs with deleted par breaks are
244 not merged (in top-level pars & in nested text insets)
246 * When running "find & replace", the cursor is not moved forward, such
247 that LyX always offers to replace the same string
249 * LyX crashes if you want to accept/reject an end-of-par character only
254 * environments when using czech translation doesnt work: e.g.
255 itemize("Polozka") -> ERROR (layoutSelected): layout not found! (P. Sanda)
258 PAINTING & PERFORMANCE
260 * Open de_UserGuide.lyx; go to the end of the document; click into the footnote (with the mouse -
261 this is important for the test case); add a character into the note
262 => the complete footnote is expanded but only the current line is repainted
264 * In the splash screen, the LyX version number is printed with a very, very
265 small font size such that it becomes almost invisible on Windows.
267 * END_LABEL_* handling in RowPainer::paintLast() is broken. In regular text,
268 label boxes are not completely visible (because we shrinked the margin on
269 screen?). Inside of insets, they don't work at all.
271 * Too much painting 2 (Edwin 3/11/2006): There is also a lot of painting going
272 on when selecting text. When selecting a word the whole screen is repainted.
273 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): there's a full repaint only when the mouse is
274 released. More to come in this area.
276 * Too much painting 1 (Edwin 3/11/2006): when i click in the workarea (to put
277 the cursor in another part of the text) the screen is repainted *twice*
278 whereas it seems to me that no repainting is necessary at all.
279 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
281 * Too much painting 3 (Edwin 3/11/2006): the screen is repainted even when the
282 selection does not change (moving the mouse with the left button pushed down
283 always triggers a repaint).
284 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): When within the main text inset only the
285 current line is repainted.
287 * The cursor is not L-shaped for foreign languages
289 * Slowness on MAC 1 (Bennett 3/11/06):
290 There seems to be a fraction of a second lag between when I press a key and
291 when the letter appears on screen -- but the time lag doesn't obviously vary
292 with the amount of text on the screen (as was the case previously). Right now,
293 the speed of normal text entry makes LyX-1.5 usable on my
294 not-fast-but-still-not-outdated computer. (Not sure how it would be on my
295 slow-but-still-usable laptop.)
297 * Slowness on MAC 2 (Bennett 3/11/06):
298 Speed is still an issue typing in insets: noticeable lag between typing and
299 text appearing on screen. This does not seem to be compounded by having nested
300 insets, and it seems to be compounded only a little by the amount of text in
301 the inset. (This is especially a problem in math environments.)
302 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
304 * Slowness on MAC 3 (Bennett 3/11/06): Some operations that with 1.4 are
305 pretty much instantaneous (inserting a footnote, dragging the mouse, switching
306 to LyX from another application, opening dialogs, etc.) take quite a long time
309 * Some math symbols are not displayed (from Enrico Forestieri)
310 I noticed that some math symbols are not shown on screen. This seems
311 to be platform dependent. The following is a table illustrating the
312 situation on three different platforms. Here "no" means that the
313 symbol is not shown on screen (the symbol is invisible but occupies
314 space: it is as a sort of \phantom), and "yes" that it is shown.
315 ---------------------------------------
316 Symbol Linux Solaris Cygwin
317 ---------------------------------------
323 \spadesuit(*) yes no yes
324 ---------------------------------------
325 (*) On solaris, a square is shown on screen instead of nothing.
326 - Further comments from Georg: This is probably a qt4 font drawing problem,
327 since \Omega works fine in 1.4.3, and my debugging results showed that the
328 correct font is found and used (cmr10).
329 - Solved problem with \int and \oint on Windows (Enrico 2006-12-06).
335 * Many issues with toolbars on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
336 Most obvious of which are that icons are spaced too widely and that changes in
337 the visibility of the toolbars with the GUI do not stick after the screen is
340 * Many issue with dialogs on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
341 Most obviously: the Preferences dialog -- which can only be accessed now via
342 keyboard command, not from the menu -- appears initially too small and must be
343 resized; not possible to select buttons with the keyboard).
345 The prefs dialog size should be better now. See below (JSpitzm-2006-11-07).
347 * Menu bar disappears on MAC (instead of being disabled) when dialogs appear.
352 * There should be a close button on the tabs (Joost 3/11/06).
353 There is now a Qt feature request:
354 http://www.trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=137891&method=entry
356 * TODO toolbar popup menu, currently disabled (Peter 9/11/06)
358 * When content (sections/captions) is changed, the toc/lof/lot is not properly
360 Abdel 2006-11-17: This one is not as simple as it seems as it involves a
361 TocBackend update at each keystroke. Unless we manage to update a specific
362 TocItem, this will be a WONTFIX for 1.5.0.
365 **********************************************************************
370 * Performance on Windows is bad. On my system, scrolling the User Guide takes
371 10 seconds with LyX 1.4 and more than 30 seconds with LyX 1.5.
373 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due to spurious message in QLPainter.C,
375 * When I have the same document in two windows, only the last selected paragraph
376 in one of the windows gets updated.
378 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due my singlePar optimization. With my last
379 commit, the optimization is enabled only if the WorkArea has the focus.
381 * No icon for "note-next" in the "review" toolbar.
383 ADDED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
385 * Branches gui broken (buttons do nothing).
387 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
389 * The title bar does not contain the document name when a new window is opened
392 FIXED (Abdel 05/11/06): This was due to "last_title" being a static variable
393 in LyXView::updateWindowTitle() and also due to a potential bug in Qt:
394 an update command to the window title seems to be ignored up until the window
397 * src/frontends/qt4/ui/QCitationUi.ui:70 "&Selected citations:" should be
398 "&Selected Citations:".
400 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
402 * In the "Math Delimiters" dialog, there is no need to repeat the term "Size"
403 for all values in the selection box; the label is already named "Size"
405 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
407 * If you open Document>Settings... or Tools>Preferences... for the first time,
408 the dialog is much too small to show its content; if you invoke it the second
409 time, everything is fine.
411 This happens with qt 4.2.1 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
413 FIXED (JSpitzm-2006-11-06): force updateGeometry() after the panelstack has
414 been created (with Qt >= 4.2 only). A brute method, but it works.
416 * If you open Edit>Test Style... for the first time, the choice text for
417 "Never Toggled>Size" doesn't fit in the selection box (note that in German,
418 texts are a bit longer than in English). Interestingly, if you invoke the
419 dialog a second time, its button sizes are adjusted to their content.
421 WONTFIX: This happens with qt >= 4.2 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
422 (or maybe try to add an updateGeometry() call somewhere as well; JSpitzm).
424 * All label and button texts in the Qt4 dialogs are not translated.
426 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07)
428 * Some English menu items don't have a '&' character. (box, date, paste...)
430 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07). I added shortcut whereever possible.
432 * When changing the toolbar settings in the right-button context menu of a
433 visible toolbar, the modified settings are not considered for session management
435 REPLACED with a new entry, popup disabled (Peter 2006-11-09)
437 * Toolbars always show on the top of the screen, even though they are set to
438 "bottom" in the ui file (Joost 3/11/06).
440 FIXED: use the defaul.ui value only when there is no valid position stored
441 (1st start of lyx) (Peter 7/11/2006)
443 * Window positions are not remembered correctly. Each time a window is openend
444 window again it has moved towards the bottom of the screen. (Joost 3/11/06)
446 FIXED (Peter 8/11/2006)
448 * Special handling of [[...]] in text messages is disabled in messages.C
449 FIXED (Georg 2006-11-12)
451 * broken signal/slot connection:
452 Object::connect: No such signal LengthCombo::selectionChanged(LyXLength::UNIT)
453 Object::connect: (sender name: 'unitCO')
454 Object::connect: (receiver name: 'QVSpaceUi')
456 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-12)
458 * Cursor is still not visible on MAC Bennett (3/11/06).
459 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-13)
461 * crash on Windows/Mac
463 2. insert List/TOC->Bibtex Bilio
464 3. add a bibliography
465 4. View Source ->crash
466 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-14)
468 * In the TOC dialog, switching between the different TOC types (TOC, Table,
469 Float, etc.) is broken.
472 * In the TOC dialog, the slider for altering the display level is
473 non-functional (not implemented).
474 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
476 * The correct list is not selected when right-clicking on a LOF or
478 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
480 * When selecting a type which *is* already selected, the content in the
481 browser window vanishes
482 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
484 * TOC crashes (simply make a few sections, subsections, sections; then add TOC
485 before all sections and click on the left button)
486 FIXED (Abdel, sometimes in november 2006).
488 * Items in the TOC cannot be moved using drag & drop (Joost 4/11/06).
489 WONTFIX (Abdel 2006-11-17): at least not for 1.5.0, this is just candy anyway.
491 * M-x is broken (does not bring up the minibuffer).
492 FIXED (Bo, 2006-11-18): set toolbar flag in display function.
494 * open a file; mark with the mouse and scroll; assert will fail:
495 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
497 * Selection highlighting is broken. Test case: two paragraphs with "Hello"
498 and "World"; move cursor past "Wor", press Shift+Up
499 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
501 * Mac Crash (Bennett 3/11/06):
502 On launch from GUI (by double-clicking on the LyX icon). As I reported before,
503 this happens only when using the GUI; I can successfully start LyX from the
504 Terminal, with or without gdb. Hence the only debug information I get is this,
505 printed out in Console.app when I try launching from the GUI (note that the
506 number changes everytime):
508 Wrong command line option `-psn_0_182321153'. Exiting.
510 Hint from Andreas Vox: LyX must accept any option starting with '-psn' and
511 pass it oon to the Qt initialisation. On Mac this gives the app a link to the
513 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-25): Arguments are now passed to QApplication.
515 * In the math control panel, "Detach panel" is broken (only 1 button is
516 visible in the detached panel).
517 FIXED (Edwin/Ugras 2006-11-XX)
519 * Command completion in the minibuffer shows a huge blank area below the proposed
520 commands. Clicking in that empty area crashes LyX.
523 * Copy/paste using middle mouse button inserts musical notes.
524 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11): Confirmed by Michael who couldn't reproduce on SuSE Linux 9.3)
526 * new document; insert note; place cursor in front of the note; activate change tracking;
527 press delete => assertion failed
528 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11)
530 * new document; insert note; insert "hello" into note; place the cursor at the beginning of the note;
531 activate change tracking; press backspace => seg fault
532 FIXED (Michael 2006-11-25)
534 * Mac Crash On quit (Bennett).
535 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-20)
537 * Drawing oddities on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
538 Lines occasionally overlapping vertically, math characters not properly
540 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11).
542 * Icons in the toolbars do not have the correct size, they are stretched a few
543 pixels compared to 1.4. This makes the images look jagged and the initial
544 window size has also become to small to show the whole toolbar
545 (Joost 4/11/06). See also the math panel buttons entry above.
546 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-28)
548 * The -geometry option doesn't work on Windows (it did in 1.4.x)
549 c:\> lyx-qt4.exe -geometry 800x600+100+30
550 Wrong command line option `-geometry'. Exiting.
551 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-29)
553 * When I "Save as..." in /tmp, I get a Backup error popup about non writable
554 /tmp, which is obviously not true. The file is there, and if I try to Save
555 as again, I get the overwrite popup warning twice: once in English, once
556 in French. (J. P. Chretien)
557 FIXED (Michael (found the problem), Georg (fix), 2006-11-30)
559 * It is ridiculous that you have to call configure with --with-frontend=qt4.
560 The existance of config/qt.m4 does not make much sense either.
561 The first one is FIXED, the second WONTFIX (JMarc 07-12-2006)
563 * Open de_Intro.lyx => The footnote text in the title section exceeds the
565 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-09). This was due to wrong metrics for small caps.
567 * Spell checking cannot be invoked a second time.
568 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). Abdel accidentally committed some test code in
569 revision 14970 which I reverted.
571 * The first time the spell checker is started, an empty window shown instead
572 of the first misspelled word.
573 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). This bug had the same resaon as the previous one.
575 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; click on the previous paragraph
576 with mouse to change the focus: lyx crashes. (happens on Win XP SP2,
577 MSVC 2005 Prof., Scons)
578 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-11)
580 * open lyx, create a new document, enter a few chars, quit, click cancel, lyx
582 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-12)
584 * Non-ascii filenames do not work at all and result in an assertion or garbage.
585 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-12).
587 * LyX tries to delete /tmp if it is called with invalid arguments
588 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-13)
590 * Start lyx, open a document, scroll down, open a new window, move
591 the cursor back, lyx crashes because par::rows() is cleared when the
592 new window is created.
593 FIXED (Bo 2006-12-13)
595 * Start lyx, open a doc, open another window for the same
596 document. Now, from window A, click at paragraph X, scroll down to paragraph Y,
597 switch to window B, click, switch back to window A. When mouse moves, editXY()
598 finds the correct pit for paragraph Y, when click, editXY() finds paragraph X
599 and scroll back to it. (Bo, 12/14/2006)
600 FIXED (Abdel 2006-12-15)