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 * Change Tools->Preferences->User interface->User interface to something like
42 "kornel.default.ui"; save prefs; exit LyX; restart LyX; => crash;
43 in the preferences file, there is an entry \bind_file "/Something/kornel.default"
45 In QPrefsDialog.C:1736, function PrefUserInterface::select_ui() calls
46 form_->controller().browseUI(qstring_to_ucs4(uiFileED->text())))
49 browseLibFile(lyx::from_ascii("ui"), file, lyx::from_ascii("ui"),
50 _("Choose UI file"), FileFilterList(_("LyX UI files (*.ui)")));
51 In this function, the extension is removed, because it is the default ("ui" in
52 this case). This behaviour applies to
53 ControlPrefs::browsebind, ControlPrefs::browseUI
54 ControlPrefs::browsekbmap, ControlPrefs::browsedict
55 Setting the default extension here to something invalid, is a hack, but works.
56 (Invalid may be e.g. "*")
60 SPELL CHECKING (Joost 4/11/06)
62 * Words with umlauts or accents do not arrive as a whole word in the spell
64 PARTIALLY FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10): pspell should work (untested), ispell
65 works if lyxrc.isp_use_input_encoding == true, aspell works on linux,
66 cygwin and native windows (it is not clear yet whether it works on OS X).
67 ispell (if lyxrc.isp_use_input_encoding == false) does not work yet.
69 * The cursor does not go to the currently checked word (or maybe it goes,
70 but the screen is not updated so that one does not see the word).
72 * When replacing a misspelled word during spell checking, the screen is not
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.
94 * Citation dialog: Create some citation; open the citation dialog a second time for
95 another new citation => the selected entry from the first citations is
96 already selected for the second citation (which is wrong)
98 * Citation dialog: If you use the cursor up/down keys to browse through the
99 list of available citations, the "preview" (in the middle of the dialog)
105 * In the math control panel, there is no icon for the "Fractions" button.
107 * In the math control panel, the buttons are too small.
108 The reason is probably that qt resizes the icons so that they fit into the
109 button, leaving some margin. This leads to different scales for each icon.
110 qt3 did not resize the icons. Can this be set in qt4, too? MG: Why don't we
116 * The visual table size selection on the the "Insert Table" dialog has gone
119 * The UI for bullet selection in the documents settings looks weird
121 There is a big listbox just to select one of the four levels.
122 Isn't this supposed to be a drop-down list or something like that?
124 * The bullet selection widget shows the bullets in 5 columns (instead of 6)
125 for me, and hence does not fit into the window.
128 * The style name in the BibTeX Bibliography panel (near the Browse... button)
129 disappears after closing and reopening the panel.
133 MULTIPLE WINDOWS / DOCUMENTS
135 * There are cursor problems when the same document is opened in two windows
138 Information from Abdel:
139 Yes, this is the famous dEPM bug (delete Empty Paragraph Mechanism).
140 There are two ways to fix that:
141 1) the correct way: fix the dEPM to not invalidate the cursor.
142 2) the easy way: disable the cursor on focus out event and re-enable it at
143 focus in event and jump the saved position (at focus out).
146 TOOLBARS & MINIBUFFER
148 * When toolbars are hidden, they pop up again after clicking on the document
149 area (Joost 4/11/06).
150 Comment by Bo: Can not reproduce, details please.
155 * Tooltips are no longer shown
160 * Some oddities with View menu on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06): DVI does not appear
161 in the menu, even though a converter and viewer are defined in Preferences.
162 It turned out that this was a user error: a configuration file of 1.4 was
163 used without the document flag.
164 This should definitely be documented somewhere before the final release,
165 because many users will copy their old config files.
167 * Mysterious *.po entry:
169 #: src/frontends/qt4/ui/QViewSourceUi.ui:31
171 "<html><head><meta name=\"qrichtext\" content=\"1\" /></head><body style=\" "
172 "white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Sans Serif; font-size:13pt; font-"
173 "weight:400; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none;\"><p style=\"-qt-"
174 "paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; "
175 "margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;\"></p></body></html>"
181 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; from the
182 environments combo box on the top left corner select anything, e.g., 'Part';
183 try to enter text => you can't!
184 MG: This must be a GUI problem; when using keyboard shortcuts (Alt-P-...),
185 the problem does not occur; it does not matter whether the cursor is in the last line
186 JSpitzm: The problem is that the workarea doesn't get focus after the combo selection.
188 * Open "de_Intro.lyx"; mark first word ("Einführung"); invoke "ert-insert" => seg fault
190 On Linux, valgrind reports:
192 ==23645== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
193 ==23645== at 0x825942D: lyx::(anonymous namespace)::numberOfHfills(lyx::Paragraph const&, lyx::Row const&) (paragraph.h:332)
194 ==23645== by 0x826250E: lyx::LyXText::computeRowMetrics(lyx::Buffer const&, int, lyx::Row const&) const (text.C:1307)
195 ==23645== by 0x826815F: lyx::LyXText::cursorX(lyx::Buffer const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool) const (text.C:2209)
196 ==23645== by 0x83A3072: lyx::InsetText::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insettext.C:343)
197 ==23645== by 0x833D909: lyx::InsetCollapsable::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insetcollapsable.C:245)
198 ==23645== by 0x81DE9AA: lyx::bv_funcs::coordOffset(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (cursor_slice.h:58)
199 ==23645== by 0x81DECC4: lyx::bv_funcs::getPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (bufferview_funcs.C:221)
200 ==23645== by 0x81FCBD4: lyx::LCursor::getPos(int&, int&) const (dociterator.h:125)
201 ==23645== by 0x81FFED5: lyx::LCursor::setTargetX() (cursor.C:938)
202 ==23645== by 0x82716EE: lyx::LyXText::setCursorIntern(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:722)
203 ==23645== by 0x8270EE2: lyx::LyXText::setCursor(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:687)
204 ==23645== by 0x8161333: lyx::cap::pasteParagraphList(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::RandomAccessList<lyx::Paragraph> const&, unsigned, lyx::ErrorList&) (CutAndPaste.C:630)
206 * edit->text style->capitalize/lower/upper case doesn't work due to change
207 tracking-related changes.
209 * insert->note->lyx note, enter a few chars, collapse the note. Copy the note
210 several times (three lines?), use mouse to select. Lyx crashes with
212 Assertion triggered in void lyx::LyXText::dispatch(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::FuncRequest&) by failing check "cur.text() == this" in file src/text3.C:323
214 NOTE: this is unrelated to the button face-lift patch.
219 * No change bar is given in LaTeX output if (only) the par break has changed
221 * In tables, cut & paste (complete cells) do not support change tracking
223 * When accepting or rejecting changes, paragraphs with deleted par breaks are
224 not merged (in top-level pars & in nested text insets)
226 * When running "find & replace", the cursor is not moved forward, such
227 that LyX always offers to replace the same string
229 * LyX crashes if you want to accept/reject an end-of-par character only
234 * environments when using czech translation doesnt work: e.g.
235 itemize("Polozka") -> ERROR (layoutSelected): layout not found! (P. Sanda)
238 PAINTING & PERFORMANCE
240 * Open de_UserGuide.lyx; go to the end of the document; click into the footnote (with the mouse -
241 this is important for the test case); add a character into the note
242 => the complete footnote is expanded but only the current line is repainted
244 * In the splash screen, the LyX version number is printed with a very, very
245 small font size such that it becomes almost invisible on Windows.
247 * END_LABEL_* handling in RowPainer::paintLast() is broken. In regular text,
248 label boxes are not completely visible (because we shrinked the margin on
249 screen?). Inside of insets, they don't work at all.
251 * Too much painting 2 (Edwin 3/11/2006): There is also a lot of painting going
252 on when selecting text. When selecting a word the whole screen is repainted.
253 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): there's a full repaint only when the mouse is
254 released. More to come in this area.
256 * Too much painting 1 (Edwin 3/11/2006): when i click in the workarea (to put
257 the cursor in another part of the text) the screen is repainted *twice*
258 whereas it seems to me that no repainting is necessary at all.
259 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
261 * Too much painting 3 (Edwin 3/11/2006): the screen is repainted even when the
262 selection does not change (moving the mouse with the left button pushed down
263 always triggers a repaint).
264 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): When within the main text inset only the
265 current line is repainted.
267 * The cursor is not L-shaped for foreign languages
269 * Slowness on MAC 1 (Bennett 3/11/06):
270 There seems to be a fraction of a second lag between when I press a key and
271 when the letter appears on screen -- but the time lag doesn't obviously vary
272 with the amount of text on the screen (as was the case previously). Right now,
273 the speed of normal text entry makes LyX-1.5 usable on my
274 not-fast-but-still-not-outdated computer. (Not sure how it would be on my
275 slow-but-still-usable laptop.)
277 * Slowness on MAC 2 (Bennett 3/11/06):
278 Speed is still an issue typing in insets: noticeable lag between typing and
279 text appearing on screen. This does not seem to be compounded by having nested
280 insets, and it seems to be compounded only a little by the amount of text in
281 the inset. (This is especially a problem in math environments.)
282 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
284 * Slowness on MAC 3 (Bennett 3/11/06): Some operations that with 1.4 are
285 pretty much instantaneous (inserting a footnote, dragging the mouse, switching
286 to LyX from another application, opening dialogs, etc.) take quite a long time
289 * Some math symbols are not displayed (from Enrico Forestieri)
290 I noticed that some math symbols are not shown on screen. This seems
291 to be platform dependent. The following is a table illustrating the
292 situation on three different platforms. Here "no" means that the
293 symbol is not shown on screen (the symbol is invisible but occupies
294 space: it is as a sort of \phantom), and "yes" that it is shown.
295 ---------------------------------------
296 Symbol Linux Solaris Cygwin
297 ---------------------------------------
303 \spadesuit(*) yes no yes
304 ---------------------------------------
305 (*) On solaris, a square is shown on screen instead of nothing.
306 - Further comments from Georg: This is probably a qt4 font drawing problem,
307 since \Omega works fine in 1.4.3, and my debugging results showed that the
308 correct font is found and used (cmr10).
309 - Solved problem with \int and \oint on Windows (Enrico 2006-12-06).
315 * Many issues with toolbars on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
316 Most obvious of which are that icons are spaced too widely and that changes in
317 the visibility of the toolbars with the GUI do not stick after the screen is
320 * Many issue with dialogs on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
321 Most obviously: the Preferences dialog -- which can only be accessed now via
322 keyboard command, not from the menu -- appears initially too small and must be
323 resized; not possible to select buttons with the keyboard).
325 The prefs dialog size should be better now. See below (JSpitzm-2006-11-07).
327 * Menu bar disappears on MAC (instead of being disabled) when dialogs appear.
332 * There should be a close button on the tabs (Joost 3/11/06).
333 There is now a Qt feature request:
334 http://www.trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=137891&method=entry
336 * TODO toolbar popup menu, currently disabled (Peter 9/11/06)
338 * When content (sections/captions) is changed, the toc/lof/lot is not properly
340 Abdel 2006-11-17: This one is not as simple as it seems as it involves a
341 TocBackend update at each keystroke. Unless we manage to update a specific
342 TocItem, this will be a WONTFIX for 1.5.0.
345 **********************************************************************
350 * Performance on Windows is bad. On my system, scrolling the User Guide takes
351 10 seconds with LyX 1.4 and more than 30 seconds with LyX 1.5.
353 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due to spurious message in QLPainter.C,
355 * When I have the same document in two windows, only the last selected paragraph
356 in one of the windows gets updated.
358 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due my singlePar optimization. With my last
359 commit, the optimization is enabled only if the WorkArea has the focus.
361 * No icon for "note-next" in the "review" toolbar.
363 ADDED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
365 * Branches gui broken (buttons do nothing).
367 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
369 * The title bar does not contain the document name when a new window is opened
372 FIXED (Abdel 05/11/06): This was due to "last_title" being a static variable
373 in LyXView::updateWindowTitle() and also due to a potential bug in Qt:
374 an update command to the window title seems to be ignored up until the window
377 * src/frontends/qt4/ui/QCitationUi.ui:70 "&Selected citations:" should be
378 "&Selected Citations:".
380 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
382 * In the "Math Delimiters" dialog, there is no need to repeat the term "Size"
383 for all values in the selection box; the label is already named "Size"
385 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
387 * If you open Document>Settings... or Tools>Preferences... for the first time,
388 the dialog is much too small to show its content; if you invoke it the second
389 time, everything is fine.
391 This happens with qt 4.2.1 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
393 FIXED (JSpitzm-2006-11-06): force updateGeometry() after the panelstack has
394 been created (with Qt >= 4.2 only). A brute method, but it works.
396 * If you open Edit>Test Style... for the first time, the choice text for
397 "Never Toggled>Size" doesn't fit in the selection box (note that in German,
398 texts are a bit longer than in English). Interestingly, if you invoke the
399 dialog a second time, its button sizes are adjusted to their content.
401 WONTFIX: This happens with qt >= 4.2 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
402 (or maybe try to add an updateGeometry() call somewhere as well; JSpitzm).
404 * All label and button texts in the Qt4 dialogs are not translated.
406 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07)
408 * Some English menu items don't have a '&' character. (box, date, paste...)
410 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07). I added shortcut whereever possible.
412 * When changing the toolbar settings in the right-button context menu of a
413 visible toolbar, the modified settings are not considered for session management
415 REPLACED with a new entry, popup disabled (Peter 2006-11-09)
417 * Toolbars always show on the top of the screen, even though they are set to
418 "bottom" in the ui file (Joost 3/11/06).
420 FIXED: use the defaul.ui value only when there is no valid position stored
421 (1st start of lyx) (Peter 7/11/2006)
423 * Window positions are not remembered correctly. Each time a window is openend
424 window again it has moved towards the bottom of the screen. (Joost 3/11/06)
426 FIXED (Peter 8/11/2006)
428 * Special handling of [[...]] in text messages is disabled in messages.C
429 FIXED (Georg 2006-11-12)
431 * broken signal/slot connection:
432 Object::connect: No such signal LengthCombo::selectionChanged(LyXLength::UNIT)
433 Object::connect: (sender name: 'unitCO')
434 Object::connect: (receiver name: 'QVSpaceUi')
436 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-12)
438 * Cursor is still not visible on MAC Bennett (3/11/06).
439 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-13)
441 * crash on Windows/Mac
443 2. insert List/TOC->Bibtex Bilio
444 3. add a bibliography
445 4. View Source ->crash
446 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-14)
448 * In the TOC dialog, switching between the different TOC types (TOC, Table,
449 Float, etc.) is broken.
452 * In the TOC dialog, the slider for altering the display level is
453 non-functional (not implemented).
454 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
456 * The correct list is not selected when right-clicking on a LOF or
458 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
460 * When selecting a type which *is* already selected, the content in the
461 browser window vanishes
462 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
464 * TOC crashes (simply make a few sections, subsections, sections; then add TOC
465 before all sections and click on the left button)
466 FIXED (Abdel, sometimes in november 2006).
468 * Items in the TOC cannot be moved using drag & drop (Joost 4/11/06).
469 WONTFIX (Abdel 2006-11-17): at least not for 1.5.0, this is just candy anyway.
471 * M-x is broken (does not bring up the minibuffer).
472 FIXED (Bo, 2006-11-18): set toolbar flag in display function.
474 * open a file; mark with the mouse and scroll; assert will fail:
475 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
477 * Selection highlighting is broken. Test case: two paragraphs with "Hello"
478 and "World"; move cursor past "Wor", press Shift+Up
479 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
481 * Mac Crash (Bennett 3/11/06):
482 On launch from GUI (by double-clicking on the LyX icon). As I reported before,
483 this happens only when using the GUI; I can successfully start LyX from the
484 Terminal, with or without gdb. Hence the only debug information I get is this,
485 printed out in Console.app when I try launching from the GUI (note that the
486 number changes everytime):
488 Wrong command line option `-psn_0_182321153'. Exiting.
490 Hint from Andreas Vox: LyX must accept any option starting with '-psn' and
491 pass it oon to the Qt initialisation. On Mac this gives the app a link to the
493 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-25): Arguments are now passed to QApplication.
495 * In the math control panel, "Detach panel" is broken (only 1 button is
496 visible in the detached panel).
497 FIXED (Edwin/Ugras 2006-11-XX)
499 * Command completion in the minibuffer shows a huge blank area below the proposed
500 commands. Clicking in that empty area crashes LyX.
503 * Copy/paste using middle mouse button inserts musical notes.
504 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11): Confirmed by Michael who couldn't reproduce on SuSE Linux 9.3)
506 * new document; insert note; place cursor in front of the note; activate change tracking;
507 press delete => assertion failed
508 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11)
510 * new document; insert note; insert "hello" into note; place the cursor at the beginning of the note;
511 activate change tracking; press backspace => seg fault
512 FIXED (Michael 2006-11-25)
514 * Mac Crash On quit (Bennett).
515 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-20)
517 * Drawing oddities on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
518 Lines occasionally overlapping vertically, math characters not properly
520 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11).
522 * Icons in the toolbars do not have the correct size, they are stretched a few
523 pixels compared to 1.4. This makes the images look jagged and the initial
524 window size has also become to small to show the whole toolbar
525 (Joost 4/11/06). See also the math panel buttons entry above.
526 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-28)
528 * The -geometry option doesn't work on Windows (it did in 1.4.x)
529 c:\> lyx-qt4.exe -geometry 800x600+100+30
530 Wrong command line option `-geometry'. Exiting.
531 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-29)
533 * When I "Save as..." in /tmp, I get a Backup error popup about non writable
534 /tmp, which is obviously not true. The file is there, and if I try to Save
535 as again, I get the overwrite popup warning twice: once in English, once
536 in French. (J. P. Chretien)
537 FIXED (Michael (found the problem), Georg (fix), 2006-11-30)
539 * It is ridiculous that you have to call configure with --with-frontend=qt4.
540 The existance of config/qt.m4 does not make much sense either.
541 The first one is FIXED, the second WONTFIX (JMarc 07-12-2006)
543 * Open de_Intro.lyx => The footnote text in the title section exceeds the
545 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-09). This was due to wrong metrics for small caps.
547 * Spell checking cannot be invoked a second time.
548 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). Abdel accidentally committed some test code in
549 revision 14970 which I reverted.
551 * The first time the spell checker is started, an empty window shown instead
552 of the first misspelled word.
553 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). This bug had the same resaon as the previous one.
555 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; click on the previous paragraph
556 with mouse to change the focus: lyx crashes. (happens on Win XP SP2,
557 MSVC 2005 Prof., Scons)
558 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-11)
560 * open lyx, create a new document, enter a few chars, quit, click cancel, lyx
562 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-12)
564 * Non-ascii filenames do not work at all and result in an assertion or garbage.
565 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-12).