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 * especially this one: src/frontends/qt4/QPrefsDialog.C:944: warning: unused parameter 'nr'
29 * Watch for bugzilla.lyx.org entries
31 * Open bugs: http://tinyurl.com/y7hdzc
33 (unconfirmed/new/assigned/reopened + no enhancement + no 1.6.0 target + not 'fixedintrunk')
35 * Uncommitted patches: http://tinyurl.com/uvxat
37 (unconfirmed/new/assigned/reopened + no 1.6.0 target + keyword 'patch')
42 * make all icons of the same size(s)
48 SPELL CHECKING (Joost 4/11/06)
50 * Words with umlauts or accents do not arrive as a whole word in the spell
52 PARTIALLY FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10): pspell should work (untested), ispell
53 works if lyxrc.isp_use_input_encoding == true, aspell works on linux,
54 cygwin and native windows (it is not clear yet whether it works on OS X).
55 ispell (if lyxrc.isp_use_input_encoding == false) does not work yet.
57 * The cursor does not go to the currently checked word (or maybe it goes,
58 but the screen is not updated so that one does not see the word).
60 * When replacing a misspelled word during spell checking, the screen is not
66 * In TOC, the buttons "Up", "Down", "Promote", and "Demote" are not
67 self-explaining. Why don't we group them in two pairs: Section Up/Down, Level
68 Up/Down? The arrangement of the buttons may also give some hint to the user.
70 * The items in the treeview are editable
75 * If you try to view a document as postscript that cannot be typeset because
76 of LaTeX errors and export to LaTeX afterwards you will get the old error
77 list again, although the export succeded.
79 * Open thesaurus dialog; look for keyword "hello" => seg fault
80 (on Windows, strictly following Joost's recipe with MSVC and Scons)
85 * In the math control panel, there is no icon for the "Fractions" button.
87 * In the math control panel, the buttons are too small.
88 The reason is probably that qt resizes the icons so that they fit into the
89 button, leaving some margin. This leads to different scales for each icon.
90 qt3 did not resize the icons. Can this be set in qt4, too? MG: Why don't we
96 * The visual table size selection on the the "Insert Table" dialog has gone
99 * The UI for bullet selection in the documents settings looks weird
101 There is a big listbox just to select one of the four levels.
102 Isn't this supposed to be a drop-down list or something like that?
104 * The bullet selection widget shows the bullets in 5 columns (instead of 6)
105 for me, and hence does not fit into the window.
108 * The style name in the BibTeX Bibliography panel (near the Browse... button)
109 disappears after closing and reopening the panel.
113 MULTIPLE WINDOWS / DOCUMENTS
115 * There are cursor problems when the same document is opened in two windows
118 Information from Abdel:
119 Yes, this is the famous dEPM bug (delete Empty Paragraph Mechanism).
120 There are two ways to fix that:
121 1) the correct way: fix the dEPM to not invalidate the cursor.
122 2) the easy way: disable the cursor on focus out event and re-enable it at
123 focus in event and jump the saved position (at focus out).
125 * Middle button paste does not work across windows. (Bo 12/15/06)
128 TOOLBARS & MINIBUFFER
130 * When toolbars are hidden, they pop up again after clicking on the document
131 area (Joost 4/11/06).
132 Comment by Bo: Can not reproduce, details please.
137 * Tooltips are no longer shown
142 * Some oddities with View menu on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06): DVI does not appear
143 in the menu, even though a converter and viewer are defined in Preferences.
144 It turned out that this was a user error: a configuration file of 1.4 was
145 used without the document flag.
146 This should definitely be documented somewhere before the final release,
147 because many users will copy their old config files.
152 * Create a document with an empty table; mark the whole table; insert a minipage
153 in order to have the table inside a minipage => crash
155 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; from the
156 environments combo box on the top left corner select anything, e.g., 'Part';
157 try to enter text => you can't!
158 MG: This must be a GUI problem; when using keyboard shortcuts (Alt-P-...),
159 the problem does not occur; it does not matter whether the cursor is in the last line
160 JSpitzm: The problem is that the workarea doesn't get focus after the combo selection.
162 * Open "de_Intro.lyx"; mark first word ("Einführung"); invoke "ert-insert" => seg fault
164 On Linux, valgrind reports:
166 ==23645== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
167 ==23645== at 0x825942D: lyx::(anonymous namespace)::numberOfHfills(lyx::Paragraph const&, lyx::Row const&) (paragraph.h:332)
168 ==23645== by 0x826250E: lyx::LyXText::computeRowMetrics(lyx::Buffer const&, int, lyx::Row const&) const (text.C:1307)
169 ==23645== by 0x826815F: lyx::LyXText::cursorX(lyx::Buffer const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool) const (text.C:2209)
170 ==23645== by 0x83A3072: lyx::InsetText::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insettext.C:343)
171 ==23645== by 0x833D909: lyx::InsetCollapsable::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insetcollapsable.C:245)
172 ==23645== by 0x81DE9AA: lyx::bv_funcs::coordOffset(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (cursor_slice.h:58)
173 ==23645== by 0x81DECC4: lyx::bv_funcs::getPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (bufferview_funcs.C:221)
174 ==23645== by 0x81FCBD4: lyx::LCursor::getPos(int&, int&) const (dociterator.h:125)
175 ==23645== by 0x81FFED5: lyx::LCursor::setTargetX() (cursor.C:938)
176 ==23645== by 0x82716EE: lyx::LyXText::setCursorIntern(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:722)
177 ==23645== by 0x8270EE2: lyx::LyXText::setCursor(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:687)
178 ==23645== by 0x8161333: lyx::cap::pasteParagraphList(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::RandomAccessList<lyx::Paragraph> const&, unsigned, lyx::ErrorList&) (CutAndPaste.C:630)
180 * edit->text style->capitalize/lower/upper case doesn't work due to change
181 tracking-related changes.
183 * insert->note->lyx note, enter a few chars, collapse the note. Copy the note
184 several times (three lines?), use mouse to select. Lyx crashes with
186 Assertion triggered in void lyx::LyXText::dispatch(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::FuncRequest&) by failing check "cur.text() == this" in file src/text3.C:323
188 NOTE: this is unrelated to the button face-lift patch.
190 * the insertion of Ctrl-Return cannot be undone
195 * No change bar is given in LaTeX output if (only) the par break has changed
197 * In tables, cut & paste (complete cells) do not support change tracking
199 * When accepting or rejecting changes, paragraphs with deleted par breaks are
200 not merged (in top-level pars & in nested text insets)
202 * When running "find & replace", the cursor is not moved forward, such
203 that LyX always offers to replace the same string
205 * LyX crashes if you want to accept/reject an end-of-par character only
210 * environments when using czech translation doesnt work: e.g.
211 itemize("Polozka") -> ERROR (layoutSelected): layout not found! (P. Sanda)
214 PAINTING & PERFORMANCE
216 * Open de_UserGuide.lyx; go to the end of the document; click into the footnote (with the mouse -
217 this is important for the test case); add a character into the note
218 => the complete footnote is expanded but only the current line is repainted
220 * END_LABEL_* handling in RowPainer::paintLast() is broken. In regular text,
221 label boxes are not completely visible (because we shrinked the margin on
222 screen?). Inside of insets, they don't work at all.
224 * Too much painting 2 (Edwin 3/11/2006): There is also a lot of painting going
225 on when selecting text. When selecting a word the whole screen is repainted.
226 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): there's a full repaint only when the mouse is
227 released. More to come in this area.
229 * Too much painting 1 (Edwin 3/11/2006): when i click in the workarea (to put
230 the cursor in another part of the text) the screen is repainted *twice*
231 whereas it seems to me that no repainting is necessary at all.
232 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
234 * Too much painting 3 (Edwin 3/11/2006): the screen is repainted even when the
235 selection does not change (moving the mouse with the left button pushed down
236 always triggers a repaint).
237 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): When within the main text inset only the
238 current line is repainted.
240 * The cursor is not L-shaped for foreign languages
242 * Slowness on MAC 1 (Bennett 3/11/06):
243 There seems to be a fraction of a second lag between when I press a key and
244 when the letter appears on screen -- but the time lag doesn't obviously vary
245 with the amount of text on the screen (as was the case previously). Right now,
246 the speed of normal text entry makes LyX-1.5 usable on my
247 not-fast-but-still-not-outdated computer. (Not sure how it would be on my
248 slow-but-still-usable laptop.)
250 * Slowness on MAC 2 (Bennett 3/11/06):
251 Speed is still an issue typing in insets: noticeable lag between typing and
252 text appearing on screen. This does not seem to be compounded by having nested
253 insets, and it seems to be compounded only a little by the amount of text in
254 the inset. (This is especially a problem in math environments.)
255 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
257 * Slowness on MAC 3 (Bennett 3/11/06): Some operations that with 1.4 are
258 pretty much instantaneous (inserting a footnote, dragging the mouse, switching
259 to LyX from another application, opening dialogs, etc.) take quite a long time
262 * Some math symbols are not displayed (from Enrico Forestieri)
263 I noticed that some math symbols are not shown on screen. This seems
264 to be platform dependent. The following is a table illustrating the
265 situation on three different platforms. Here "no" means that the
266 symbol is not shown on screen (the symbol is invisible but occupies
267 space: it is as a sort of \phantom), and "yes" that it is shown.
268 ---------------------------------------
269 Symbol Linux Solaris Cygwin
270 ---------------------------------------
276 \spadesuit(*) yes no yes
277 ---------------------------------------
278 (*) On solaris, a square is shown on screen instead of nothing.
279 - Further comments from Georg: This is probably a qt4 font drawing problem,
280 since \Omega works fine in 1.4.3, and my debugging results showed that the
281 correct font is found and used (cmr10).
282 - Solved problem with \int and \oint on Windows (Enrico 2006-12-06).
288 * Many issues with toolbars on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
289 Most obvious of which are that icons are spaced too widely and that changes in
290 the visibility of the toolbars with the GUI do not stick after the screen is
293 * Many issue with dialogs on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
294 Most obviously: the Preferences dialog -- which can only be accessed now via
295 keyboard command, not from the menu -- appears initially too small and must be
296 resized; not possible to select buttons with the keyboard).
298 The prefs dialog size should be better now. See below (JSpitzm-2006-11-07).
300 * Menu bar disappears on MAC (instead of being disabled) when dialogs appear.
305 * There should be a close button on the tabs (Joost 3/11/06).
306 There is now a Qt feature request:
307 http://www.trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=137891&method=entry
309 * TODO toolbar popup menu, currently disabled (Peter 9/11/06)
311 * When content (sections/captions) is changed, the toc/lof/lot is not properly
313 Abdel 2006-11-17: This one is not as simple as it seems as it involves a
314 TocBackend update at each keystroke. Unless we manage to update a specific
315 TocItem, this will be a WONTFIX for 1.5.0.
318 **********************************************************************
323 * Performance on Windows is bad. On my system, scrolling the User Guide takes
324 10 seconds with LyX 1.4 and more than 30 seconds with LyX 1.5.
326 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due to spurious message in QLPainter.C,
328 * When I have the same document in two windows, only the last selected paragraph
329 in one of the windows gets updated.
331 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due my singlePar optimization. With my last
332 commit, the optimization is enabled only if the WorkArea has the focus.
334 * No icon for "note-next" in the "review" toolbar.
336 ADDED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
338 * Branches gui broken (buttons do nothing).
340 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
342 * The title bar does not contain the document name when a new window is opened
345 FIXED (Abdel 05/11/06): This was due to "last_title" being a static variable
346 in LyXView::updateWindowTitle() and also due to a potential bug in Qt:
347 an update command to the window title seems to be ignored up until the window
350 * src/frontends/qt4/ui/QCitationUi.ui:70 "&Selected citations:" should be
351 "&Selected Citations:".
353 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
355 * In the "Math Delimiters" dialog, there is no need to repeat the term "Size"
356 for all values in the selection box; the label is already named "Size"
358 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
360 * If you open Document>Settings... or Tools>Preferences... for the first time,
361 the dialog is much too small to show its content; if you invoke it the second
362 time, everything is fine.
364 This happens with qt 4.2.1 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
366 FIXED (JSpitzm-2006-11-06): force updateGeometry() after the panelstack has
367 been created (with Qt >= 4.2 only). A brute method, but it works.
369 * If you open Edit>Test Style... for the first time, the choice text for
370 "Never Toggled>Size" doesn't fit in the selection box (note that in German,
371 texts are a bit longer than in English). Interestingly, if you invoke the
372 dialog a second time, its button sizes are adjusted to their content.
374 WONTFIX: This happens with qt >= 4.2 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
375 (or maybe try to add an updateGeometry() call somewhere as well; JSpitzm).
377 * All label and button texts in the Qt4 dialogs are not translated.
379 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07)
381 * Some English menu items don't have a '&' character. (box, date, paste...)
383 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07). I added shortcut whereever possible.
385 * When changing the toolbar settings in the right-button context menu of a
386 visible toolbar, the modified settings are not considered for session management
388 REPLACED with a new entry, popup disabled (Peter 2006-11-09)
390 * Toolbars always show on the top of the screen, even though they are set to
391 "bottom" in the ui file (Joost 3/11/06).
393 FIXED: use the defaul.ui value only when there is no valid position stored
394 (1st start of lyx) (Peter 7/11/2006)
396 * Window positions are not remembered correctly. Each time a window is openend
397 window again it has moved towards the bottom of the screen. (Joost 3/11/06)
399 FIXED (Peter 8/11/2006)
401 * Special handling of [[...]] in text messages is disabled in messages.C
402 FIXED (Georg 2006-11-12)
404 * broken signal/slot connection:
405 Object::connect: No such signal LengthCombo::selectionChanged(LyXLength::UNIT)
406 Object::connect: (sender name: 'unitCO')
407 Object::connect: (receiver name: 'QVSpaceUi')
409 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-12)
411 * Cursor is still not visible on MAC Bennett (3/11/06).
412 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-13)
414 * crash on Windows/Mac
416 2. insert List/TOC->Bibtex Bilio
417 3. add a bibliography
418 4. View Source ->crash
419 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-14)
421 * In the TOC dialog, switching between the different TOC types (TOC, Table,
422 Float, etc.) is broken.
425 * In the TOC dialog, the slider for altering the display level is
426 non-functional (not implemented).
427 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
429 * The correct list is not selected when right-clicking on a LOF or
431 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
433 * When selecting a type which *is* already selected, the content in the
434 browser window vanishes
435 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
437 * TOC crashes (simply make a few sections, subsections, sections; then add TOC
438 before all sections and click on the left button)
439 FIXED (Abdel, sometimes in november 2006).
441 * Items in the TOC cannot be moved using drag & drop (Joost 4/11/06).
442 WONTFIX (Abdel 2006-11-17): at least not for 1.5.0, this is just candy anyway.
444 * M-x is broken (does not bring up the minibuffer).
445 FIXED (Bo, 2006-11-18): set toolbar flag in display function.
447 * open a file; mark with the mouse and scroll; assert will fail:
448 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
450 * Selection highlighting is broken. Test case: two paragraphs with "Hello"
451 and "World"; move cursor past "Wor", press Shift+Up
452 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
454 * Mac Crash (Bennett 3/11/06):
455 On launch from GUI (by double-clicking on the LyX icon). As I reported before,
456 this happens only when using the GUI; I can successfully start LyX from the
457 Terminal, with or without gdb. Hence the only debug information I get is this,
458 printed out in Console.app when I try launching from the GUI (note that the
459 number changes everytime):
461 Wrong command line option `-psn_0_182321153'. Exiting.
463 Hint from Andreas Vox: LyX must accept any option starting with '-psn' and
464 pass it oon to the Qt initialisation. On Mac this gives the app a link to the
466 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-25): Arguments are now passed to QApplication.
468 * In the math control panel, "Detach panel" is broken (only 1 button is
469 visible in the detached panel).
470 FIXED (Edwin/Ugras 2006-11-XX)
472 * Command completion in the minibuffer shows a huge blank area below the proposed
473 commands. Clicking in that empty area crashes LyX.
476 * Copy/paste using middle mouse button inserts musical notes.
477 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11): Confirmed by Michael who couldn't reproduce on SuSE Linux 9.3)
479 * new document; insert note; place cursor in front of the note; activate change tracking;
480 press delete => assertion failed
481 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11)
483 * new document; insert note; insert "hello" into note; place the cursor at the beginning of the note;
484 activate change tracking; press backspace => seg fault
485 FIXED (Michael 2006-11-25)
487 * Mac Crash On quit (Bennett).
488 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-20)
490 * Drawing oddities on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
491 Lines occasionally overlapping vertically, math characters not properly
493 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11).
495 * Icons in the toolbars do not have the correct size, they are stretched a few
496 pixels compared to 1.4. This makes the images look jagged and the initial
497 window size has also become to small to show the whole toolbar
498 (Joost 4/11/06). See also the math panel buttons entry above.
499 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-28)
501 * The -geometry option doesn't work on Windows (it did in 1.4.x)
502 c:\> lyx-qt4.exe -geometry 800x600+100+30
503 Wrong command line option `-geometry'. Exiting.
504 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-29)
506 * When I "Save as..." in /tmp, I get a Backup error popup about non writable
507 /tmp, which is obviously not true. The file is there, and if I try to Save
508 as again, I get the overwrite popup warning twice: once in English, once
509 in French. (J. P. Chretien)
510 FIXED (Michael (found the problem), Georg (fix), 2006-11-30)
512 * It is ridiculous that you have to call configure with --with-frontend=qt4.
513 The existance of config/qt.m4 does not make much sense either.
514 The first one is FIXED, the second WONTFIX (JMarc 07-12-2006)
516 * Open de_Intro.lyx => The footnote text in the title section exceeds the
518 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-09). This was due to wrong metrics for small caps.
520 * Spell checking cannot be invoked a second time.
521 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). Abdel accidentally committed some test code in
522 revision 14970 which I reverted.
524 * The first time the spell checker is started, an empty window shown instead
525 of the first misspelled word.
526 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). This bug had the same resaon as the previous one.
528 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; click on the previous paragraph
529 with mouse to change the focus: lyx crashes. (happens on Win XP SP2,
530 MSVC 2005 Prof., Scons)
531 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-11)
533 * open lyx, create a new document, enter a few chars, quit, click cancel, lyx
535 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-12)
537 * Non-ascii filenames do not work at all and result in an assertion or garbage.
538 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-12).
540 * LyX tries to delete /tmp if it is called with invalid arguments
541 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-13)
543 * Start lyx, open a document, scroll down, open a new window, move
544 the cursor back, lyx crashes because par::rows() is cleared when the
545 new window is created.
546 FIXED (Bo 2006-12-13)
548 * Start lyx, open a doc, open another window for the same
549 document. Now, from window A, click at paragraph X, scroll down to paragraph Y,
550 switch to window B, click, switch back to window A. When mouse moves, editXY()
551 finds the correct pit for paragraph Y, when click, editXY() finds paragraph X
552 and scroll back to it. (Bo, 12/14/2006)
553 FIXED (Abdel 2006-12-15)
555 * In the citation dialog, the shortcut for "&Find" does not work
556 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-17)
558 * Graphics dialog: The order of fields is broken (when using <TAB> to jump from
559 one field to another)
560 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-18)
562 * Mysterious *.po entry:
564 #: src/frontends/qt4/ui/QViewSourceUi.ui:31
566 "<html><head><meta name=\"qrichtext\" content=\"1\" /></head><body style=\" "
567 "white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Sans Serif; font-size:13pt; font-"
568 "weight:400; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none;\"><p style=\"-qt-"
569 "paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; "
570 "margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;\"></p></body></html>"
572 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-19)
574 * Loading de_Userguide.lyx results in two parse errors:
575 Paragraph ended in line 21206
577 Paragraph ended in line 21301
579 I don't know if that is a lyx2lyx or LyX problem. LyX 1.4 can read the file.
580 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-17). It turned out that it was a math parser problem
581 (bug 3034). It was introduced by the conversion of mathed to unicode,
582 because two methods Parser::tokenize() with different semantics existed.
584 * In the splash screen, the LyX version number is printed with a very, very
585 small font size such that it becomes almost invisible on Windows.
586 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-21)
588 * Change Tools->Preferences->User interface->User interface to something like
589 "kornel.default.ui"; save prefs; exit LyX; restart LyX; => crash;
590 in the preferences file, there is an entry \bind_file "/Something/kornel.default"
592 In QPrefsDialog.C:1736, function PrefUserInterface::select_ui() calls
593 form_->controller().browseUI(qstring_to_ucs4(uiFileED->text())))
596 browseLibFile(lyx::from_ascii("ui"), file, lyx::from_ascii("ui"),
597 _("Choose UI file"), FileFilterList(_("LyX UI files (*.ui)")));
598 In this function, the extension is removed, because it is the default ("ui" in
599 this case). This behaviour applies to
600 ControlPrefs::browsebind, ControlPrefs::browseUI
601 ControlPrefs::browsekbmap, ControlPrefs::browsedict
602 Setting the default extension here to something invalid, is a hack, but works.
603 (Invalid may be e.g. "*")
604 FIXED (Enrico and Georg 2006-12-21)
606 * When loading a LyX file from a Windows directory with a German Umlaut, I get the
609 Assertion triggered in __thiscall lyx::support::FileName::FileName(const class
610 std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > &)
611 by failing check "empty() || absolutePath(name_)" in file C:\...\src\support\filename.C:47
613 If I rename the directory (no Umlaut), I can load the file without a problem.
614 FIXED (Enrico and Georg 2006-12-21)
616 * when opening an already opened document (or a document with newer backup),
617 the mouse pointer turns into a clock, although it waits for confirmation
618 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-21)