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 * Words with umlauts or accents do not arrive as a whole word in the spell
68 PARTIALLY FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10): pspell should work (untested), ispell
69 works if lyxrc.isp_use_input_encoding == true. ispell (if
70 lyxrc.isp_use_input_encoding == false) and aspell do not work yet.
72 * The cursor does not go to the currently checked word (or maybe it goes,
73 but the screen is not updated so that one does not see the word).
78 * In TOC, the buttons "Up", "Down", "Promote", and "Demote" are not
79 self-explaining. Why don't we group them in two pairs: Section Up/Down, Level
80 Up/Down? The arrangement of the buttons may also give some hint to the user.
82 * The items in the treeview are editable
87 * when opening an already opened document (or a document with newer backup),
88 the mouse pointer turns into a clock, although it waits for confirmation
90 * If you try to view a document as postscript that cannot be typeset because
91 of LaTeX errors and export to LaTeX afterwards you will get the old error
92 list again, although the export succeded.
97 * In the math control panel, there is no icon for the "Fractions" button.
99 * In the math control panel, the buttons are too small.
100 The reason is probably that qt resizes the icons so that they fit into the
101 button, leaving some margin. This leads to different scales for each icon.
102 qt3 did not resize the icons. Can this be set in qt4, too? MG: Why don't we
108 * The visual table size selection on the the "Insert Table" dialog has gone
111 * The UI for bullet selection in the documents settings looks weird
113 There is a big listbox just to select one of the four levels.
114 Isn't this supposed to be a drop-down list or something like that?
116 * The bullet selection widget shows the bullets in 5 columns (instead of 6)
117 for me, and hence does not fit into the window.
120 * The style name in the BibTeX Bibliography panel (near the Browse... button)
121 disappears after closing and reopening the panel.
125 MULTIPLE WINDOWS / DOCUMENTS
127 * There are cursor problems when the same document is opened in two windows
130 Information from Abdel:
131 Yes, this is the famous dEPM bug (delete Empty Paragraph Mechanism).
132 There are two ways to fix that:
133 1) the correct way: fix the dEPM to not invalidate the cursor.
134 2) the easy way: disable the cursor on focus out event and re-enable it at
135 focus in event and jump the saved position (at focus out).
138 TOOLBARS & MINIBUFFER
140 * When toolbars are hidden, they pop up again after clicking on the document
141 area (Joost 4/11/06).
142 Comment by Bo: Can not reproduce, details please.
147 * Tooltips are no longer shown
152 * Some oddities with View menu on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06): DVI does not appear
153 in the menu, even though a converter and viewer are defined in Preferences.
154 It turned out that this was a user error: a configuration file of 1.4 was
155 used without the document flag.
156 This should definitely be documented somewhere before the final release,
157 because many users will copy their old config files.
159 * Mysterious *.po entry:
161 #: src/frontends/qt4/ui/QViewSourceUi.ui:31
163 "<html><head><meta name=\"qrichtext\" content=\"1\" /></head><body style=\" "
164 "white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Sans Serif; font-size:13pt; font-"
165 "weight:400; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none;\"><p style=\"-qt-"
166 "paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; "
167 "margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;\"></p></body></html>"
173 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; from the
174 environments combo box on the top left corner select anything, e.g., 'Part';
175 try to enter text => you can't!
176 MG: This must be a GUI problem; when using keyboard shortcuts (Alt-P-...),
177 the problem does not occur; it does not matter whether the cursor is in the last line
178 JSpitzm: The problem is that the workarea doesn't get focus after the combo selection.
180 * Open "de_Intro.lyx"; mark first word ("Einführung"); invoke "ert-insert" => seg fault
182 On Linux, valgrind reports:
184 ==23645== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
185 ==23645== at 0x825942D: lyx::(anonymous namespace)::numberOfHfills(lyx::Paragraph const&, lyx::Row const&) (paragraph.h:332)
186 ==23645== by 0x826250E: lyx::LyXText::computeRowMetrics(lyx::Buffer const&, int, lyx::Row const&) const (text.C:1307)
187 ==23645== by 0x826815F: lyx::LyXText::cursorX(lyx::Buffer const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool) const (text.C:2209)
188 ==23645== by 0x83A3072: lyx::InsetText::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insettext.C:343)
189 ==23645== by 0x833D909: lyx::InsetCollapsable::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insetcollapsable.C:245)
190 ==23645== by 0x81DE9AA: lyx::bv_funcs::coordOffset(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (cursor_slice.h:58)
191 ==23645== by 0x81DECC4: lyx::bv_funcs::getPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (bufferview_funcs.C:221)
192 ==23645== by 0x81FCBD4: lyx::LCursor::getPos(int&, int&) const (dociterator.h:125)
193 ==23645== by 0x81FFED5: lyx::LCursor::setTargetX() (cursor.C:938)
194 ==23645== by 0x82716EE: lyx::LyXText::setCursorIntern(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:722)
195 ==23645== by 0x8270EE2: lyx::LyXText::setCursor(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:687)
196 ==23645== by 0x8161333: lyx::cap::pasteParagraphList(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::RandomAccessList<lyx::Paragraph> const&, unsigned, lyx::ErrorList&) (CutAndPaste.C:630)
198 * edit->text style->capitalize/lower/upper case doesn't work due to change
199 tracking-related changes.
201 * insert->note->lyx note, enter a few chars, collapse the note. Copy the note
202 several times (three lines?), use mouse to select. Lyx crashes with
204 Assertion triggered in void lyx::LyXText::dispatch(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::FuncRequest&) by failing check "cur.text() == this" in file src/text3.C:323
206 NOTE: this is unrelated to the button face-lift patch.
211 * No change bar is given in LaTeX output if (only) the par break has changed
213 * In tables, cut & paste (complete cells) do not support change tracking
215 * When accepting or rejecting changes, paragraphs with deleted par breaks are
216 not merged (in top-level pars & in nested text insets)
218 * When running "find & replace", the cursor is not moved forward, such
219 that LyX always offers to replace the same string
221 * LyX crashes if you want to accept/reject an end-of-par character only
226 * environments when using czech translation doesnt work: e.g.
227 itemize("Polozka") -> ERROR (layoutSelected): layout not found! (P. Sanda)
230 PAINTING & PERFORMANCE
232 * Open de_UserGuide.lyx; go to the end of the document; click into the footnote (with the mouse -
233 this is important for the test case); add a character into the note
234 => the complete footnote is expanded but only the current line is repainted
236 * In the splash screen, the LyX version number is printed with a very, very
237 small font size such that it becomes almost invisible on Windows.
239 * END_LABEL_* handling in RowPainer::paintLast() is broken. In regular text,
240 label boxes are not completely visible (because we shrinked the margin on
241 screen?). Inside of insets, they don't work at all.
243 * Too much painting 2 (Edwin 3/11/2006): There is also a lot of painting going
244 on when selecting text. When selecting a word the whole screen is repainted.
245 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): there's a full repaint only when the mouse is
246 released. More to come in this area.
248 * Too much painting 1 (Edwin 3/11/2006): when i click in the workarea (to put
249 the cursor in another part of the text) the screen is repainted *twice*
250 whereas it seems to me that no repainting is necessary at all.
251 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
253 * Too much painting 3 (Edwin 3/11/2006): the screen is repainted even when the
254 selection does not change (moving the mouse with the left button pushed down
255 always triggers a repaint).
256 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): When within the main text inset only the
257 current line is repainted.
259 * The cursor is not L-shaped for foreign languages
261 * Slowness on MAC 1 (Bennett 3/11/06):
262 There seems to be a fraction of a second lag between when I press a key and
263 when the letter appears on screen -- but the time lag doesn't obviously vary
264 with the amount of text on the screen (as was the case previously). Right now,
265 the speed of normal text entry makes LyX-1.5 usable on my
266 not-fast-but-still-not-outdated computer. (Not sure how it would be on my
267 slow-but-still-usable laptop.)
269 * Slowness on MAC 2 (Bennett 3/11/06):
270 Speed is still an issue typing in insets: noticeable lag between typing and
271 text appearing on screen. This does not seem to be compounded by having nested
272 insets, and it seems to be compounded only a little by the amount of text in
273 the inset. (This is especially a problem in math environments.)
274 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
276 * Slowness on MAC 3 (Bennett 3/11/06): Some operations that with 1.4 are
277 pretty much instantaneous (inserting a footnote, dragging the mouse, switching
278 to LyX from another application, opening dialogs, etc.) take quite a long time
281 * Some math symbols are not displayed (from Enrico Forestieri)
282 I noticed that some math symbols are not shown on screen. This seems
283 to be platform dependent. The following is a table illustrating the
284 situation on three different platforms. Here "no" means that the
285 symbol is not shown on screen (the symbol is invisible but occupies
286 space: it is as a sort of \phantom), and "yes" that it is shown.
287 ---------------------------------------
288 Symbol Linux Solaris Cygwin
289 ---------------------------------------
295 \spadesuit(*) yes no yes
296 ---------------------------------------
297 (*) On solaris, a square is shown on screen instead of nothing.
298 - Further comments from Georg: This is probably a qt4 font drawing problem,
299 since \Omega works fine in 1.4.3, and my debugging results showed that the
300 correct font is found and used (cmr10).
301 - Solved problem with \int and \oint on Windows (Enrico 2006-12-06).
307 * Many issues with toolbars on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
308 Most obvious of which are that icons are spaced too widely and that changes in
309 the visibility of the toolbars with the GUI do not stick after the screen is
312 * Many issue with dialogs on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
313 Most obviously: the Preferences dialog -- which can only be accessed now via
314 keyboard command, not from the menu -- appears initially too small and must be
315 resized; not possible to select buttons with the keyboard).
317 The prefs dialog size should be better now. See below (JSpitzm-2006-11-07).
319 * Menu bar disappears on MAC (instead of being disabled) when dialogs appear.
324 * There should be a close button on the tabs (Joost 3/11/06).
325 There is now a Qt feature request:
326 http://www.trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=137891&method=entry
328 * TODO toolbar popup menu, currently disabled (Peter 9/11/06)
330 * When content (sections/captions) is changed, the toc/lof/lot is not properly
332 Abdel 2006-11-17: This one is not as simple as it seems as it involves a
333 TocBackend update at each keystroke. Unless we manage to update a specific
334 TocItem, this will be a WONTFIX for 1.5.0.
337 **********************************************************************
342 * Performance on Windows is bad. On my system, scrolling the User Guide takes
343 10 seconds with LyX 1.4 and more than 30 seconds with LyX 1.5.
345 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due to spurious message in QLPainter.C,
347 * When I have the same document in two windows, only the last selected paragraph
348 in one of the windows gets updated.
350 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due my singlePar optimization. With my last
351 commit, the optimization is enabled only if the WorkArea has the focus.
353 * No icon for "note-next" in the "review" toolbar.
355 ADDED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
357 * Branches gui broken (buttons do nothing).
359 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
361 * The title bar does not contain the document name when a new window is opened
364 FIXED (Abdel 05/11/06): This was due to "last_title" being a static variable
365 in LyXView::updateWindowTitle() and also due to a potential bug in Qt:
366 an update command to the window title seems to be ignored up until the window
369 * src/frontends/qt4/ui/QCitationUi.ui:70 "&Selected citations:" should be
370 "&Selected Citations:".
372 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
374 * In the "Math Delimiters" dialog, there is no need to repeat the term "Size"
375 for all values in the selection box; the label is already named "Size"
377 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
379 * If you open Document>Settings... or Tools>Preferences... for the first time,
380 the dialog is much too small to show its content; if you invoke it the second
381 time, everything is fine.
383 This happens with qt 4.2.1 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
385 FIXED (JSpitzm-2006-11-06): force updateGeometry() after the panelstack has
386 been created (with Qt >= 4.2 only). A brute method, but it works.
388 * If you open Edit>Test Style... for the first time, the choice text for
389 "Never Toggled>Size" doesn't fit in the selection box (note that in German,
390 texts are a bit longer than in English). Interestingly, if you invoke the
391 dialog a second time, its button sizes are adjusted to their content.
393 WONTFIX: This happens with qt >= 4.2 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
394 (or maybe try to add an updateGeometry() call somewhere as well; JSpitzm).
396 * All label and button texts in the Qt4 dialogs are not translated.
398 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07)
400 * Some English menu items don't have a '&' character. (box, date, paste...)
402 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07). I added shortcut whereever possible.
404 * When changing the toolbar settings in the right-button context menu of a
405 visible toolbar, the modified settings are not considered for session management
407 REPLACED with a new entry, popup disabled (Peter 2006-11-09)
409 * Toolbars always show on the top of the screen, even though they are set to
410 "bottom" in the ui file (Joost 3/11/06).
412 FIXED: use the defaul.ui value only when there is no valid position stored
413 (1st start of lyx) (Peter 7/11/2006)
415 * Window positions are not remembered correctly. Each time a window is openend
416 window again it has moved towards the bottom of the screen. (Joost 3/11/06)
418 FIXED (Peter 8/11/2006)
420 * Special handling of [[...]] in text messages is disabled in messages.C
421 FIXED (Georg 2006-11-12)
423 * broken signal/slot connection:
424 Object::connect: No such signal LengthCombo::selectionChanged(LyXLength::UNIT)
425 Object::connect: (sender name: 'unitCO')
426 Object::connect: (receiver name: 'QVSpaceUi')
428 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-12)
430 * Cursor is still not visible on MAC Bennett (3/11/06).
431 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-13)
433 * crash on Windows/Mac
435 2. insert List/TOC->Bibtex Bilio
436 3. add a bibliography
437 4. View Source ->crash
438 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-14)
440 * In the TOC dialog, switching between the different TOC types (TOC, Table,
441 Float, etc.) is broken.
444 * In the TOC dialog, the slider for altering the display level is
445 non-functional (not implemented).
446 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
448 * The correct list is not selected when right-clicking on a LOF or
450 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
452 * When selecting a type which *is* already selected, the content in the
453 browser window vanishes
454 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
456 * TOC crashes (simply make a few sections, subsections, sections; then add TOC
457 before all sections and click on the left button)
458 FIXED (Abdel, sometimes in november 2006).
460 * Items in the TOC cannot be moved using drag & drop (Joost 4/11/06).
461 WONTFIX (Abdel 2006-11-17): at least not for 1.5.0, this is just candy anyway.
463 * M-x is broken (does not bring up the minibuffer).
464 FIXED (Bo, 2006-11-18): set toolbar flag in display function.
466 * open a file; mark with the mouse and scroll; assert will fail:
467 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
469 * Selection highlighting is broken. Test case: two paragraphs with "Hello"
470 and "World"; move cursor past "Wor", press Shift+Up
471 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
473 * Mac Crash (Bennett 3/11/06):
474 On launch from GUI (by double-clicking on the LyX icon). As I reported before,
475 this happens only when using the GUI; I can successfully start LyX from the
476 Terminal, with or without gdb. Hence the only debug information I get is this,
477 printed out in Console.app when I try launching from the GUI (note that the
478 number changes everytime):
480 Wrong command line option `-psn_0_182321153'. Exiting.
482 Hint from Andreas Vox: LyX must accept any option starting with '-psn' and
483 pass it oon to the Qt initialisation. On Mac this gives the app a link to the
485 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-25): Arguments are now passed to QApplication.
487 * In the math control panel, "Detach panel" is broken (only 1 button is
488 visible in the detached panel).
489 FIXED (Edwin/Ugras 2006-11-XX)
491 * Command completion in the minibuffer shows a huge blank area below the proposed
492 commands. Clicking in that empty area crashes LyX.
495 * Copy/paste using middle mouse button inserts musical notes.
496 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11): Confirmed by Michael who couldn't reproduce on SuSE Linux 9.3)
498 * new document; insert note; place cursor in front of the note; activate change tracking;
499 press delete => assertion failed
500 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11)
502 * new document; insert note; insert "hello" into note; place the cursor at the beginning of the note;
503 activate change tracking; press backspace => seg fault
504 FIXED (Michael 2006-11-25)
506 * Mac Crash On quit (Bennett).
507 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-20)
509 * Drawing oddities on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
510 Lines occasionally overlapping vertically, math characters not properly
512 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11).
514 * Icons in the toolbars do not have the correct size, they are stretched a few
515 pixels compared to 1.4. This makes the images look jagged and the initial
516 window size has also become to small to show the whole toolbar
517 (Joost 4/11/06). See also the math panel buttons entry above.
518 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-28)
520 * The -geometry option doesn't work on Windows (it did in 1.4.x)
521 c:\> lyx-qt4.exe -geometry 800x600+100+30
522 Wrong command line option `-geometry'. Exiting.
523 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-29)
525 * When I "Save as..." in /tmp, I get a Backup error popup about non writable
526 /tmp, which is obviously not true. The file is there, and if I try to Save
527 as again, I get the overwrite popup warning twice: once in English, once
528 in French. (J. P. Chretien)
529 FIXED (Michael (found the problem), Georg (fix), 2006-11-30)
531 * It is ridiculous that you have to call configure with --with-frontend=qt4.
532 The existance of config/qt.m4 does not make much sense either.
533 The first one is FIXED, the second WONTFIX (JMarc 07-12-2006)
535 * Open de_Intro.lyx => The footnote text in the title section exceeds the
537 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-09). This was due to wrong metrics for small caps.
539 * Spell checking cannot be invoked a second time.
540 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). Abdel accidentally committed some test code in
541 revision 14970 which I reverted.
543 * The first time the spell checker is started, an empty window shown instead
544 of the first misspelled word.
545 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). This bug had the same resaon as the previous one.
547 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; click on the previous paragraph
548 with mouse to change the focus: lyx crashes. (happens on Win XP SP2,
549 MSVC 2005 Prof., Scons)
550 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-11)