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 * LyX tries to delete /tmp if it is called with invalid arguments
32 * When I "Save as..." in /tmp, I get a Backup error popup about non writable
33 /tmp, which is obviously not true. The file is there, and if I try to Save
34 as again, I get the overwrite popup warning twice: once in English, once
35 in French. (J. P. Chretien)
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 * Non-ascii filenames do not work at all and result in an assertion or garbage.
47 SPELL CHECKING (Joost 4/11/06)
49 * Spell checking cannot be invoked a second time.
51 * The first time the spell checker is started, an empty window shown instead
52 of the first misspelled word.
54 * Words with umlauts or accents do not arrive as a whole word in the spell
60 * In TOC, the buttons "Up", "Down", "Promote", and "Demote" are not
61 self-explaining. Why don't we group them in two pairs: Section Up/Down, Level
62 Up/Down? The arrangement of the buttons may also give some hint to the user.
64 * The items in the treeview are editable
66 * When content (sections/captions) is changed, the toc/lof/lot is not properly
68 Abdel 2006-11-17: This one is not as simple as it seems as it involves a
69 TocBackend update at each keystroke. Unless we manage to update a specific
70 TocItem, this will be a WONTFIX for 1.5.0.
75 * when opening an already opened document (or a document with newer backup),
76 the mouse pointer turns into a clock, although it waits for confirmation
78 * If you try to view a document as postscript that cannot be typeset because
79 of LaTeX errors and export to LaTeX afterwards you will get the old error
80 list again, although the export succeded.
85 * In the math control panel, switching between different "functions" is broken
86 (retry a couple of times).
88 * In the math control panel, there is no icon for "Set Math Font".
90 * In the math control panel, the buttons are too small.
91 The reason is probably that qt resizes the icons so that they fit into the
92 button, leaving some margin. This leads to different scales for each icon.
93 qt3 did not resize the icons. Can this be set in qt4, too?
98 * The visual table size selection on the the "Insert Table" dialog has gone
101 * The UI for bullet selection in the documents settings looks weird
103 There is a big listbox just to select one of the four levels.
104 Isn't this supposed to be a drop-down list or something like that?
106 * The bullet selection widget shows the bullets in 5 columns (instead of 6)
107 for me, and hence does not fit into the window.
111 MULTIPLE WINDOWS / DOCUMENTS
113 * There are cursor problems when the same document is opened in two windows
116 Information from Abdel:
117 Yes, this is the famous dEPM bug (delete Empty Paragraph Mechanism).
118 There are two ways to fix that:
119 1) the correct way: fix the dEPM to not invalidate the cursor.
120 2) the easy way: disable the cursor on focus out event and re-enable it at
121 focus in event and jump the saved position (at focus out).
123 * There should be a close button on the tabs (Joost 3/11/06).
124 There is now a Qt feature request:
125 http://www.trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=137891&method=entry
128 TOOLBARS & MINIBUFFER
130 * When toolbars are hidden, they pop up again after clicking on the document
131 area (Joost 4/11/06).
133 * TODO toolbar popup menu, currently disabled (Peter 9/11/06)
138 * Some oddities with View menu on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06): DVI does not appear
139 in the menu, even though a converter and viewer are defined in Preferences.
140 It turned out that this was a user error: a configuration file of 1.4 was
141 used without the document flag.
142 This should definitely be documented somewhere before the final release,
143 because many users will copy their old config files.
148 * edit->text style->capitalize/lower/upper case doesn't work due to change
149 tracking-related changes.
154 * No change bar is given in LaTeX output if (only) the par break has changed
156 * In tables, cut & paste (complete cells) do not support change tracking
158 * When accepting or rejecting changes, paragraphs with deleted par breaks are
159 not merged in nested text insets
161 * When accepting a change, LyX may hang (same as in 1.4.3)
163 * When running "find & replace", the cursor is not moved forward, such
164 that LyX always offers to replace the same string
169 * environments when using czech translation doesnt work: e.g.
170 itemize("Polozka") -> ERROR (layoutSelected): layout not found! (P. Sanda)
173 PAINTING & PERFORMANCE
175 * END_LABEL_* handling in RowPainer::paintLast() is broken. In regular text,
176 label boxes are not completely visible (because we shrinked the margin on
177 screen?). Inside of insets, they don't work at all. Should we remove this
178 feature completely as the overall benefit for the user is marginal?
180 * Too much painting 2 (Edwin 3/11/2006): There is also a lot of painting going
181 on when selecting text. When selecting a word the whole screen is repainted.
182 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): there's a full repaint only when the mouse is
183 released. More to come in this area.
185 * Too much painting 1 (Edwin 3/11/2006): when i click in the workarea (to put
186 the cursor in another part of the text) the screen is repainted *twice*
187 whereas it seems to me that no repainting is necessary at all.
188 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
190 * Too much painting 3 (Edwin 3/11/2006): the screen is repainted even when the
191 selection does not change (moving the mouse with the left button pushed down
192 always triggers a repaint).
193 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): When within the main text inset only the
194 current line is repainted.
196 * The cursor is not L-shaped for foreign languages
198 * Slowness on MAC 1 (Bennett 3/11/06):
199 There seems to be a fraction of a second lag between when I press a key and
200 when the letter appears on screen -- but the time lag doesn't obviously vary
201 with the amount of text on the screen (as was the case previously). Right now,
202 the speed of normal text entry makes LyX-1.5 usable on my
203 not-fast-but-still-not-outdated computer. (Not sure how it would be on my
204 slow-but-still-usable laptop.)
206 * Slowness on MAC 2 (Bennett 3/11/06):
207 Speed is still an issue typing in insets: noticeable lag between typing and
208 text appearing on screen. This does not seem to be compounded by having nested
209 insets, and it seems to be compounded only a little by the amount of text in
210 the inset. (This is especially a problem in math environments.)
211 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
213 * Slowness on MAC 3 (Bennett 3/11/06): Some operations that with 1.4 are
214 pretty much instantaneous (inserting a footnote, dragging the mouse, switching
215 to LyX from another application, opening dialogs, etc.) take quite a long time
218 * Some math symbols are not displayed (from Enrico Forestieri)
219 I noticed that some math symbols are not shown on screen. This seems
220 to be platform dependent. The following is a table illustrating the
221 situation on three different platforms. Here "no" means that the
222 symbol is not shown on screen (the symbol is invisible but occupies
223 space: it is as a sort of \phantom), and "yes" that it is shown.
224 ---------------------------------------
225 Symbol Linux Solaris Cygwin
226 ---------------------------------------
232 \spadesuit(*) yes no yes
233 ---------------------------------------
234 (*) On solaris, a square is shown on screen instead of nothing.
235 Further comments from Georg: This is probably a qt4 font drawing problem,
236 since \Omega works fine in 1.4.3, and my debugging results showed that the
237 correct font is found and used (cmr10).
242 * open lyx, create a new document, enter a few chars, quit. Lyx does not
243 ask if you want to save the file.
247 * It is ridiculous that you have to call configure with --with-frontend=qt4.
248 The existance of config/qt.m4 does not make much sense either.
253 * Many issues with toolbars on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
254 Most obvious of which are that icons are spaced too widely and that changes in
255 the visibility of the toolbars with the GUI do not stick after the screen is
258 * Many issue with dialogs on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
259 Most obviously: the Preferences dialog -- which can only be accessed now via
260 keyboard command, not from the menu -- appears initially too small and must be
261 resized; not possible to select buttons with the keyboard).
263 The prefs dialog size should be better now. See below (JSpitzm-2006-11-07).
265 * Menu bar disappears on MAC (instead of being disabled) when dialogs appear.
269 **********************************************************************
274 * Performance on Windows is bad. On my system, scrolling the User Guide takes
275 10 seconds with LyX 1.4 and more than 30 seconds with LyX 1.5.
277 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due to spurious message in QLPainter.C,
279 * When I have the same document in two windows, only the last selected paragraph
280 in one of the windows gets updated.
282 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due my singlePar optimization. With my last
283 commit, the optimization is enabled only if the WorkArea has the focus.
285 * No icon for "note-next" in the "review" toolbar.
287 ADDED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
289 * Branches gui broken (buttons do nothing).
291 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
293 * The title bar does not contain the document name when a new window is opened
296 FIXED (Abdel 05/11/06): This was due to "last_title" being a static variable
297 in LyXView::updateWindowTitle() and also due to a potential bug in Qt:
298 an update command to the window title seems to be ignored up until the window
301 * src/frontends/qt4/ui/QCitationUi.ui:70 "&Selected citations:" should be
302 "&Selected Citations:".
304 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
306 * In the "Math Delimiters" dialog, there is no need to repeat the term "Size"
307 for all values in the selection box; the label is already named "Size"
309 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
311 * If you open Document>Settings... or Tools>Preferences... for the first time,
312 the dialog is much too small to show its content; if you invoke it the second
313 time, everything is fine.
315 This happens with qt 4.2.1 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
317 FIXED (JSpitzm-2006-11-06): force updateGeometry() after the panelstack has
318 been created (with Qt >= 4.2 only). A brute method, but it works.
320 * If you open Edit>Test Style... for the first time, the choice text for
321 "Never Toggled>Size" doesn't fit in the selection box (note that in German,
322 texts are a bit longer than in English). Interestingly, if you invoke the
323 dialog a second time, its button sizes are adjusted to their content.
325 WONTFIX: This happens with qt >= 4.2 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
326 (or maybe try to add an updateGeometry() call somewhere as well; JSpitzm).
328 * All label and button texts in the Qt4 dialogs are not translated.
330 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07)
332 * Some English menu items don't have a '&' character. (box, date, paste...)
334 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07). I added shortcut whereever possible.
336 * When changing the toolbar settings in the right-button context menu of a
337 visible toolbar, the modified settings are not considered for session management
339 REPLACED with a new entry, popup disabled (Peter 2006-11-09)
341 * Toolbars always show on the top of the screen, even though they are set to
342 "bottom" in the ui file (Joost 3/11/06).
344 FIXED: use the defaul.ui value only when there is no valid position stored
345 (1st start of lyx) (Peter 7/11/2006)
347 * Window positions are not remembered correctly. Each time a window is openend
348 window again it has moved towards the bottom of the screen. (Joost 3/11/06)
350 FIXED (Peter 8/11/2006)
352 * Special handling of [[...]] in text messages is disabled in messages.C
353 FIXED (Georg 2006-11-12)
355 * broken signal/slot connection:
356 Object::connect: No such signal LengthCombo::selectionChanged(LyXLength::UNIT)
357 Object::connect: (sender name: 'unitCO')
358 Object::connect: (receiver name: 'QVSpaceUi')
360 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-12)
362 * Cursor is still not visible on MAC Bennett (3/11/06).
363 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-13)
365 * crash on Windows/Mac
367 2. insert List/TOC->Bibtex Bilio
368 3. add a bibliography
369 4. View Source ->crash
370 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-14)
372 * In the TOC dialog, switching between the different TOC types (TOC, Table,
373 Float, etc.) is broken.
376 * In the TOC dialog, the slider for altering the display level is
377 non-functional (not implemented).
378 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
380 * The correct list is not selected when right-clicking on a LOF or
382 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
384 * When selecting a type which *is* already selected, the content in the
385 browser window vanishes
386 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
388 * TOC crashes (simply make a few sections, subsections, sections; then add TOC
389 before all sections and click on the left button)
390 FIXED (Abdel, sometimes in november 2006).
392 * Items in the TOC cannot be moved using drag & drop (Joost 4/11/06).
393 WONTFIX (Abdel 2006-11-17): at least not for 1.5.0, this is just candy anyway.
395 * M-x is broken (does not bring up the minibuffer).
396 FIXED (Bo, 2006-11-18): set toolbar flag in display function.
398 * open a file; mark with the mouse and scroll; assert will fail:
399 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
401 * Selection highlighting is broken. Test case: two paragraphs with "Hello"
402 and "World"; move cursor past "Wor", press Shift+Up
403 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
405 * Mac Crash (Bennett 3/11/06):
406 On launch from GUI (by double-clicking on the LyX icon). As I reported before,
407 this happens only when using the GUI; I can successfully start LyX from the
408 Terminal, with or without gdb. Hence the only debug information I get is this,
409 printed out in Console.app when I try launching from the GUI (note that the
410 number changes everytime):
412 Wrong command line option `-psn_0_182321153'. Exiting.
414 Hint from Andreas Vox: LyX must accept any option starting with '-psn' and
415 pass it oon to the Qt initialisation. On Mac this gives the app a link to the
417 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-25): Arguments are now passed to QApplication.
419 * In the math control panel, "Detach panel" is broken (only 1 button is
420 visible in the detached panel).
421 FIXED (Edwin/Ugras 2006-11-XX)
423 * Command completion in the minibuffer shows a huge blank area below the proposed
424 commands. Clicking in that empty area crashes LyX.
427 * Copy/paste using middle mouse button inserts musical notes.
428 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11): Confirmed by Michael who couldn't reproduce on SuSE Linux 9.3)
430 * new document; insert note; place cursor in front of the note; activate change tracking;
431 press delete => assertion failed
432 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11)
434 * new document; insert note; insert "hello" into note; place the cursor at the beginning of the note;
435 activate change tracking; press backspace => seg fault
436 FIXED (Michael 2006-11-25)
438 * Mac Crash On quit (Bennett).
439 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-20)
441 * Drawing oddities on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
442 Lines occasionally overlapping vertically, math characters not properly
444 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11).
446 * Icons in the toolbars do not have the correct size, they are stretched a few
447 pixels compared to 1.4. This makes the images look jagged and the initial
448 window size has also become to small to show the whole toolbar
449 (Joost 4/11/06). See also the math panel buttons entry above.
450 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-28)
452 * The -geometry option doesn't work on Windows (it did in 1.4.x)
453 c:\> lyx-qt4.exe -geometry 800x600+100+30
454 Wrong command line option `-geometry'. Exiting.
455 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-29)