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
30 * LyX tries to delete /tmp if it is called with invalid arguments
32 * Loading de_Userguide.lyx results in two parse errors:
33 Paragraph ended in line 21206
35 Paragraph ended in line 21301
37 I don't know if that is a lyx2lyx or LyX problem. LyX 1.4 can read the file.
39 * Non-ascii filenames do not work at all and result in an assertion or garbage.
41 * open lyx, create a new document, enter a few chars, quit. Lyx does not
42 ask if you want to save 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 * Spell checking cannot be invoked a second time.
66 * The first time the spell checker is started, an empty window shown instead
67 of the first misspelled word.
69 * Words with umlauts or accents do not arrive as a whole word in the spell
75 * In TOC, the buttons "Up", "Down", "Promote", and "Demote" are not
76 self-explaining. Why don't we group them in two pairs: Section Up/Down, Level
77 Up/Down? The arrangement of the buttons may also give some hint to the user.
79 * The items in the treeview are editable
81 * When content (sections/captions) is changed, the toc/lof/lot is not properly
83 Abdel 2006-11-17: This one is not as simple as it seems as it involves a
84 TocBackend update at each keystroke. Unless we manage to update a specific
85 TocItem, this will be a WONTFIX for 1.5.0.
90 * when opening an already opened document (or a document with newer backup),
91 the mouse pointer turns into a clock, although it waits for confirmation
93 * If you try to view a document as postscript that cannot be typeset because
94 of LaTeX errors and export to LaTeX afterwards you will get the old error
95 list again, although the export succeded.
100 * In the math control panel, switching between different "functions" is broken
101 (retry a couple of times).
103 * In the math control panel, there is no icon for "Set Math Font".
105 * In the math control panel, the buttons are too small.
106 The reason is probably that qt resizes the icons so that they fit into the
107 button, leaving some margin. This leads to different scales for each icon.
108 qt3 did not resize the icons. Can this be set in qt4, too?
113 * The visual table size selection on the the "Insert Table" dialog has gone
116 * The UI for bullet selection in the documents settings looks weird
118 There is a big listbox just to select one of the four levels.
119 Isn't this supposed to be a drop-down list or something like that?
121 * The bullet selection widget shows the bullets in 5 columns (instead of 6)
122 for me, and hence does not fit into the window.
125 * The style name in the BibTeX Bibliography panel (near the Browse... button)
126 disappears after closing and reopening the panel.
130 MULTIPLE WINDOWS / DOCUMENTS
132 * There are cursor problems when the same document is opened in two windows
135 Information from Abdel:
136 Yes, this is the famous dEPM bug (delete Empty Paragraph Mechanism).
137 There are two ways to fix that:
138 1) the correct way: fix the dEPM to not invalidate the cursor.
139 2) the easy way: disable the cursor on focus out event and re-enable it at
140 focus in event and jump the saved position (at focus out).
142 * There should be a close button on the tabs (Joost 3/11/06).
143 There is now a Qt feature request:
144 http://www.trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=137891&method=entry
147 TOOLBARS & MINIBUFFER
149 * When toolbars are hidden, they pop up again after clicking on the document
150 area (Joost 4/11/06).
152 * TODO toolbar popup menu, currently disabled (Peter 9/11/06)
157 * Some oddities with View menu on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06): DVI does not appear
158 in the menu, even though a converter and viewer are defined in Preferences.
159 It turned out that this was a user error: a configuration file of 1.4 was
160 used without the document flag.
161 This should definitely be documented somewhere before the final release,
162 because many users will copy their old config files.
167 * edit->text style->capitalize/lower/upper case doesn't work due to change
168 tracking-related changes.
173 * No change bar is given in LaTeX output if (only) the par break has changed
175 * In tables, cut & paste (complete cells) do not support change tracking
177 * When accepting or rejecting changes, paragraphs with deleted par breaks are
178 not merged in nested text insets
180 * When accepting a change, LyX may hang (same as in 1.4.3)
182 * When running "find & replace", the cursor is not moved forward, such
183 that LyX always offers to replace the same string
188 * environments when using czech translation doesnt work: e.g.
189 itemize("Polozka") -> ERROR (layoutSelected): layout not found! (P. Sanda)
192 PAINTING & PERFORMANCE
194 * In the splash screen, the LyX version number is printed with a very, very
195 small font size such that it becomes almost invisible on Windows.
197 * END_LABEL_* handling in RowPainer::paintLast() is broken. In regular text,
198 label boxes are not completely visible (because we shrinked the margin on
199 screen?). Inside of insets, they don't work at all.
201 * Too much painting 2 (Edwin 3/11/2006): There is also a lot of painting going
202 on when selecting text. When selecting a word the whole screen is repainted.
203 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): there's a full repaint only when the mouse is
204 released. More to come in this area.
206 * Too much painting 1 (Edwin 3/11/2006): when i click in the workarea (to put
207 the cursor in another part of the text) the screen is repainted *twice*
208 whereas it seems to me that no repainting is necessary at all.
209 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
211 * Too much painting 3 (Edwin 3/11/2006): the screen is repainted even when the
212 selection does not change (moving the mouse with the left button pushed down
213 always triggers a repaint).
214 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): When within the main text inset only the
215 current line is repainted.
217 * The cursor is not L-shaped for foreign languages
219 * Slowness on MAC 1 (Bennett 3/11/06):
220 There seems to be a fraction of a second lag between when I press a key and
221 when the letter appears on screen -- but the time lag doesn't obviously vary
222 with the amount of text on the screen (as was the case previously). Right now,
223 the speed of normal text entry makes LyX-1.5 usable on my
224 not-fast-but-still-not-outdated computer. (Not sure how it would be on my
225 slow-but-still-usable laptop.)
227 * Slowness on MAC 2 (Bennett 3/11/06):
228 Speed is still an issue typing in insets: noticeable lag between typing and
229 text appearing on screen. This does not seem to be compounded by having nested
230 insets, and it seems to be compounded only a little by the amount of text in
231 the inset. (This is especially a problem in math environments.)
232 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
234 * Slowness on MAC 3 (Bennett 3/11/06): Some operations that with 1.4 are
235 pretty much instantaneous (inserting a footnote, dragging the mouse, switching
236 to LyX from another application, opening dialogs, etc.) take quite a long time
239 * Some math symbols are not displayed (from Enrico Forestieri)
240 I noticed that some math symbols are not shown on screen. This seems
241 to be platform dependent. The following is a table illustrating the
242 situation on three different platforms. Here "no" means that the
243 symbol is not shown on screen (the symbol is invisible but occupies
244 space: it is as a sort of \phantom), and "yes" that it is shown.
245 ---------------------------------------
246 Symbol Linux Solaris Cygwin
247 ---------------------------------------
253 \spadesuit(*) yes no yes
254 ---------------------------------------
255 (*) On solaris, a square is shown on screen instead of nothing.
256 Further comments from Georg: This is probably a qt4 font drawing problem,
257 since \Omega works fine in 1.4.3, and my debugging results showed that the
258 correct font is found and used (cmr10).
263 * It is ridiculous that you have to call configure with --with-frontend=qt4.
264 The existance of config/qt.m4 does not make much sense either.
269 * Many issues with toolbars on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
270 Most obvious of which are that icons are spaced too widely and that changes in
271 the visibility of the toolbars with the GUI do not stick after the screen is
274 * Many issue with dialogs on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
275 Most obviously: the Preferences dialog -- which can only be accessed now via
276 keyboard command, not from the menu -- appears initially too small and must be
277 resized; not possible to select buttons with the keyboard).
279 The prefs dialog size should be better now. See below (JSpitzm-2006-11-07).
281 * Menu bar disappears on MAC (instead of being disabled) when dialogs appear.
285 **********************************************************************
290 * Performance on Windows is bad. On my system, scrolling the User Guide takes
291 10 seconds with LyX 1.4 and more than 30 seconds with LyX 1.5.
293 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due to spurious message in QLPainter.C,
295 * When I have the same document in two windows, only the last selected paragraph
296 in one of the windows gets updated.
298 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due my singlePar optimization. With my last
299 commit, the optimization is enabled only if the WorkArea has the focus.
301 * No icon for "note-next" in the "review" toolbar.
303 ADDED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
305 * Branches gui broken (buttons do nothing).
307 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
309 * The title bar does not contain the document name when a new window is opened
312 FIXED (Abdel 05/11/06): This was due to "last_title" being a static variable
313 in LyXView::updateWindowTitle() and also due to a potential bug in Qt:
314 an update command to the window title seems to be ignored up until the window
317 * src/frontends/qt4/ui/QCitationUi.ui:70 "&Selected citations:" should be
318 "&Selected Citations:".
320 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
322 * In the "Math Delimiters" dialog, there is no need to repeat the term "Size"
323 for all values in the selection box; the label is already named "Size"
325 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
327 * If you open Document>Settings... or Tools>Preferences... for the first time,
328 the dialog is much too small to show its content; if you invoke it the second
329 time, everything is fine.
331 This happens with qt 4.2.1 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
333 FIXED (JSpitzm-2006-11-06): force updateGeometry() after the panelstack has
334 been created (with Qt >= 4.2 only). A brute method, but it works.
336 * If you open Edit>Test Style... for the first time, the choice text for
337 "Never Toggled>Size" doesn't fit in the selection box (note that in German,
338 texts are a bit longer than in English). Interestingly, if you invoke the
339 dialog a second time, its button sizes are adjusted to their content.
341 WONTFIX: This happens with qt >= 4.2 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
342 (or maybe try to add an updateGeometry() call somewhere as well; JSpitzm).
344 * All label and button texts in the Qt4 dialogs are not translated.
346 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07)
348 * Some English menu items don't have a '&' character. (box, date, paste...)
350 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07). I added shortcut whereever possible.
352 * When changing the toolbar settings in the right-button context menu of a
353 visible toolbar, the modified settings are not considered for session management
355 REPLACED with a new entry, popup disabled (Peter 2006-11-09)
357 * Toolbars always show on the top of the screen, even though they are set to
358 "bottom" in the ui file (Joost 3/11/06).
360 FIXED: use the defaul.ui value only when there is no valid position stored
361 (1st start of lyx) (Peter 7/11/2006)
363 * Window positions are not remembered correctly. Each time a window is openend
364 window again it has moved towards the bottom of the screen. (Joost 3/11/06)
366 FIXED (Peter 8/11/2006)
368 * Special handling of [[...]] in text messages is disabled in messages.C
369 FIXED (Georg 2006-11-12)
371 * broken signal/slot connection:
372 Object::connect: No such signal LengthCombo::selectionChanged(LyXLength::UNIT)
373 Object::connect: (sender name: 'unitCO')
374 Object::connect: (receiver name: 'QVSpaceUi')
376 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-12)
378 * Cursor is still not visible on MAC Bennett (3/11/06).
379 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-13)
381 * crash on Windows/Mac
383 2. insert List/TOC->Bibtex Bilio
384 3. add a bibliography
385 4. View Source ->crash
386 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-14)
388 * In the TOC dialog, switching between the different TOC types (TOC, Table,
389 Float, etc.) is broken.
392 * In the TOC dialog, the slider for altering the display level is
393 non-functional (not implemented).
394 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
396 * The correct list is not selected when right-clicking on a LOF or
398 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
400 * When selecting a type which *is* already selected, the content in the
401 browser window vanishes
402 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
404 * TOC crashes (simply make a few sections, subsections, sections; then add TOC
405 before all sections and click on the left button)
406 FIXED (Abdel, sometimes in november 2006).
408 * Items in the TOC cannot be moved using drag & drop (Joost 4/11/06).
409 WONTFIX (Abdel 2006-11-17): at least not for 1.5.0, this is just candy anyway.
411 * M-x is broken (does not bring up the minibuffer).
412 FIXED (Bo, 2006-11-18): set toolbar flag in display function.
414 * open a file; mark with the mouse and scroll; assert will fail:
415 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
417 * Selection highlighting is broken. Test case: two paragraphs with "Hello"
418 and "World"; move cursor past "Wor", press Shift+Up
419 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
421 * Mac Crash (Bennett 3/11/06):
422 On launch from GUI (by double-clicking on the LyX icon). As I reported before,
423 this happens only when using the GUI; I can successfully start LyX from the
424 Terminal, with or without gdb. Hence the only debug information I get is this,
425 printed out in Console.app when I try launching from the GUI (note that the
426 number changes everytime):
428 Wrong command line option `-psn_0_182321153'. Exiting.
430 Hint from Andreas Vox: LyX must accept any option starting with '-psn' and
431 pass it oon to the Qt initialisation. On Mac this gives the app a link to the
433 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-25): Arguments are now passed to QApplication.
435 * In the math control panel, "Detach panel" is broken (only 1 button is
436 visible in the detached panel).
437 FIXED (Edwin/Ugras 2006-11-XX)
439 * Command completion in the minibuffer shows a huge blank area below the proposed
440 commands. Clicking in that empty area crashes LyX.
443 * Copy/paste using middle mouse button inserts musical notes.
444 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11): Confirmed by Michael who couldn't reproduce on SuSE Linux 9.3)
446 * new document; insert note; place cursor in front of the note; activate change tracking;
447 press delete => assertion failed
448 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11)
450 * new document; insert note; insert "hello" into note; place the cursor at the beginning of the note;
451 activate change tracking; press backspace => seg fault
452 FIXED (Michael 2006-11-25)
454 * Mac Crash On quit (Bennett).
455 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-20)
457 * Drawing oddities on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
458 Lines occasionally overlapping vertically, math characters not properly
460 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11).
462 * Icons in the toolbars do not have the correct size, they are stretched a few
463 pixels compared to 1.4. This makes the images look jagged and the initial
464 window size has also become to small to show the whole toolbar
465 (Joost 4/11/06). See also the math panel buttons entry above.
466 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-28)
468 * The -geometry option doesn't work on Windows (it did in 1.4.x)
469 c:\> lyx-qt4.exe -geometry 800x600+100+30
470 Wrong command line option `-geometry'. Exiting.
471 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-29)
473 * When I "Save as..." in /tmp, I get a Backup error popup about non writable
474 /tmp, which is obviously not true. The file is there, and if I try to Save
475 as again, I get the overwrite popup warning twice: once in English, once
476 in French. (J. P. Chretien)
477 FIXED (Michael (found the problem), Georg (fix), 2006-11-30)