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.
109 MULTIPLE WINDOWS / DOCUMENTS
111 * There are cursor problems when the same document is opened in two windows
114 Information from Abdel:
115 Yes, this is the famous dEPM bug (delete Empty Paragraph Mechanism).
116 There are two ways to fix that:
117 1) the correct way: fix the dEPM to not invalidate the cursor.
118 2) the easy way: disable the cursor on focus out event and re-enable it at
119 focus in event and jump the saved position (at focus out).
121 * Middle button paste does not work across windows. (Bo 12/15/06)
124 TOOLBARS & MINIBUFFER
126 * When toolbars are hidden, they pop up again after clicking on the document
127 area (Joost 4/11/06).
128 Comment by Bo: Can not reproduce, details please.
133 * Tooltips are no longer shown
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 * Create a document with an empty table; mark the whole table; insert a minipage
149 in order to have the table inside a minipage => crash
151 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; from the
152 environments combo box on the top left corner select anything, e.g., 'Part';
153 try to enter text => you can't!
154 MG: This must be a GUI problem; when using keyboard shortcuts (Alt-P-...),
155 the problem does not occur; it does not matter whether the cursor is in the last line
156 JSpitzm: The problem is that the workarea doesn't get focus after the combo selection.
158 * Open "de_Intro.lyx"; mark first word ("Einführung"); invoke "ert-insert" => seg fault
160 On Linux, valgrind reports:
162 ==23645== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
163 ==23645== at 0x825942D: lyx::(anonymous namespace)::numberOfHfills(lyx::Paragraph const&, lyx::Row const&) (paragraph.h:332)
164 ==23645== by 0x826250E: lyx::LyXText::computeRowMetrics(lyx::Buffer const&, int, lyx::Row const&) const (text.C:1307)
165 ==23645== by 0x826815F: lyx::LyXText::cursorX(lyx::Buffer const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool) const (text.C:2209)
166 ==23645== by 0x83A3072: lyx::InsetText::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insettext.C:343)
167 ==23645== by 0x833D909: lyx::InsetCollapsable::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insetcollapsable.C:245)
168 ==23645== by 0x81DE9AA: lyx::bv_funcs::coordOffset(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (cursor_slice.h:58)
169 ==23645== by 0x81DECC4: lyx::bv_funcs::getPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (bufferview_funcs.C:221)
170 ==23645== by 0x81FCBD4: lyx::LCursor::getPos(int&, int&) const (dociterator.h:125)
171 ==23645== by 0x81FFED5: lyx::LCursor::setTargetX() (cursor.C:938)
172 ==23645== by 0x82716EE: lyx::LyXText::setCursorIntern(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:722)
173 ==23645== by 0x8270EE2: lyx::LyXText::setCursor(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:687)
174 ==23645== by 0x8161333: lyx::cap::pasteParagraphList(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::RandomAccessList<lyx::Paragraph> const&, unsigned, lyx::ErrorList&) (CutAndPaste.C:630)
176 * edit->text style->capitalize/lower/upper case doesn't work due to change
177 tracking-related changes.
179 * insert->note->lyx note, enter a few chars, collapse the note. Copy the note
180 several times (three lines?), use mouse to select. Lyx crashes with
182 Assertion triggered in void lyx::LyXText::dispatch(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::FuncRequest&) by failing check "cur.text() == this" in file src/text3.C:323
184 NOTE: this is unrelated to the button face-lift patch.
186 * the insertion of Ctrl-Return cannot be undone
191 * No change bar is given in LaTeX output if (only) the par break has changed
193 * In tables, cut & paste (complete cells) do not support change tracking
195 * When accepting or rejecting changes, paragraphs with deleted par breaks are
196 not merged (in top-level pars & in nested text insets)
198 * When running "find & replace", the cursor is not moved forward, such
199 that LyX always offers to replace the same string
201 * LyX crashes if you want to accept/reject an end-of-par character only
206 * environments when using czech translation doesnt work: e.g.
207 itemize("Polozka") -> ERROR (layoutSelected): layout not found! (P. Sanda)
210 PAINTING & PERFORMANCE
212 * Open de_UserGuide.lyx; go to the end of the document; click into the footnote (with the mouse -
213 this is important for the test case); add a character into the note
214 => the complete footnote is expanded but only the current line is repainted
216 * END_LABEL_* handling in RowPainer::paintLast() is broken. In regular text,
217 label boxes are not completely visible (because we shrinked the margin on
218 screen?). Inside of insets, they don't work at all.
220 * Too much painting 2 (Edwin 3/11/2006): There is also a lot of painting going
221 on when selecting text. When selecting a word the whole screen is repainted.
222 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): there's a full repaint only when the mouse is
223 released. More to come in this area.
225 * Too much painting 1 (Edwin 3/11/2006): when i click in the workarea (to put
226 the cursor in another part of the text) the screen is repainted *twice*
227 whereas it seems to me that no repainting is necessary at all.
228 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
230 * Too much painting 3 (Edwin 3/11/2006): the screen is repainted even when the
231 selection does not change (moving the mouse with the left button pushed down
232 always triggers a repaint).
233 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): When within the main text inset only the
234 current line is repainted.
236 * The cursor is not L-shaped for foreign languages
238 * Slowness on MAC 1 (Bennett 3/11/06):
239 There seems to be a fraction of a second lag between when I press a key and
240 when the letter appears on screen -- but the time lag doesn't obviously vary
241 with the amount of text on the screen (as was the case previously). Right now,
242 the speed of normal text entry makes LyX-1.5 usable on my
243 not-fast-but-still-not-outdated computer. (Not sure how it would be on my
244 slow-but-still-usable laptop.)
246 * Slowness on MAC 2 (Bennett 3/11/06):
247 Speed is still an issue typing in insets: noticeable lag between typing and
248 text appearing on screen. This does not seem to be compounded by having nested
249 insets, and it seems to be compounded only a little by the amount of text in
250 the inset. (This is especially a problem in math environments.)
251 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
253 * Slowness on MAC 3 (Bennett 3/11/06): Some operations that with 1.4 are
254 pretty much instantaneous (inserting a footnote, dragging the mouse, switching
255 to LyX from another application, opening dialogs, etc.) take quite a long time
258 * Some math symbols are not displayed (from Enrico Forestieri)
259 I noticed that some math symbols are not shown on screen. This seems
260 to be platform dependent. The following is a table illustrating the
261 situation on three different platforms. Here "no" means that the
262 symbol is not shown on screen (the symbol is invisible but occupies
263 space: it is as a sort of \phantom), and "yes" that it is shown.
264 ---------------------------------------
265 Symbol Linux Solaris Cygwin
266 ---------------------------------------
272 \spadesuit(*) yes no yes
273 ---------------------------------------
274 (*) On solaris, a square is shown on screen instead of nothing.
275 - Further comments from Georg: This is probably a qt4 font drawing problem,
276 since \Omega works fine in 1.4.3, and my debugging results showed that the
277 correct font is found and used (cmr10).
278 - Solved problem with \int and \oint on Windows (Enrico 2006-12-06).
284 * Many issues with toolbars on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
285 Most obvious of which are that icons are spaced too widely and that changes in
286 the visibility of the toolbars with the GUI do not stick after the screen is
289 * Many issue with dialogs on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
290 Most obviously: the Preferences dialog -- which can only be accessed now via
291 keyboard command, not from the menu -- appears initially too small and must be
292 resized; not possible to select buttons with the keyboard).
294 The prefs dialog size should be better now. See below (JSpitzm-2006-11-07).
296 * Menu bar disappears on MAC (instead of being disabled) when dialogs appear.
301 * There should be a close button on the tabs (Joost 3/11/06).
302 There is now a Qt feature request:
303 http://www.trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=137891&method=entry
305 * TODO toolbar popup menu, currently disabled (Peter 9/11/06)
307 * When content (sections/captions) is changed, the toc/lof/lot is not properly
309 Abdel 2006-11-17: This one is not as simple as it seems as it involves a
310 TocBackend update at each keystroke. Unless we manage to update a specific
311 TocItem, this will be a WONTFIX for 1.5.0.
314 **********************************************************************
319 * Performance on Windows is bad. On my system, scrolling the User Guide takes
320 10 seconds with LyX 1.4 and more than 30 seconds with LyX 1.5.
322 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due to spurious message in QLPainter.C,
324 * When I have the same document in two windows, only the last selected paragraph
325 in one of the windows gets updated.
327 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due my singlePar optimization. With my last
328 commit, the optimization is enabled only if the WorkArea has the focus.
330 * No icon for "note-next" in the "review" toolbar.
332 ADDED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
334 * Branches gui broken (buttons do nothing).
336 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
338 * The title bar does not contain the document name when a new window is opened
341 FIXED (Abdel 05/11/06): This was due to "last_title" being a static variable
342 in LyXView::updateWindowTitle() and also due to a potential bug in Qt:
343 an update command to the window title seems to be ignored up until the window
346 * src/frontends/qt4/ui/QCitationUi.ui:70 "&Selected citations:" should be
347 "&Selected Citations:".
349 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
351 * In the "Math Delimiters" dialog, there is no need to repeat the term "Size"
352 for all values in the selection box; the label is already named "Size"
354 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
356 * If you open Document>Settings... or Tools>Preferences... for the first time,
357 the dialog is much too small to show its content; if you invoke it the second
358 time, everything is fine.
360 This happens with qt 4.2.1 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
362 FIXED (JSpitzm-2006-11-06): force updateGeometry() after the panelstack has
363 been created (with Qt >= 4.2 only). A brute method, but it works.
365 * If you open Edit>Test Style... for the first time, the choice text for
366 "Never Toggled>Size" doesn't fit in the selection box (note that in German,
367 texts are a bit longer than in English). Interestingly, if you invoke the
368 dialog a second time, its button sizes are adjusted to their content.
370 WONTFIX: This happens with qt >= 4.2 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
371 (or maybe try to add an updateGeometry() call somewhere as well; JSpitzm).
373 * All label and button texts in the Qt4 dialogs are not translated.
375 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07)
377 * Some English menu items don't have a '&' character. (box, date, paste...)
379 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07). I added shortcut whereever possible.
381 * When changing the toolbar settings in the right-button context menu of a
382 visible toolbar, the modified settings are not considered for session management
384 REPLACED with a new entry, popup disabled (Peter 2006-11-09)
386 * Toolbars always show on the top of the screen, even though they are set to
387 "bottom" in the ui file (Joost 3/11/06).
389 FIXED: use the defaul.ui value only when there is no valid position stored
390 (1st start of lyx) (Peter 7/11/2006)
392 * Window positions are not remembered correctly. Each time a window is openend
393 window again it has moved towards the bottom of the screen. (Joost 3/11/06)
395 FIXED (Peter 8/11/2006)
397 * Special handling of [[...]] in text messages is disabled in messages.C
398 FIXED (Georg 2006-11-12)
400 * broken signal/slot connection:
401 Object::connect: No such signal LengthCombo::selectionChanged(LyXLength::UNIT)
402 Object::connect: (sender name: 'unitCO')
403 Object::connect: (receiver name: 'QVSpaceUi')
405 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-12)
407 * Cursor is still not visible on MAC Bennett (3/11/06).
408 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-13)
410 * crash on Windows/Mac
412 2. insert List/TOC->Bibtex Bilio
413 3. add a bibliography
414 4. View Source ->crash
415 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-14)
417 * In the TOC dialog, switching between the different TOC types (TOC, Table,
418 Float, etc.) is broken.
421 * In the TOC dialog, the slider for altering the display level is
422 non-functional (not implemented).
423 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
425 * The correct list is not selected when right-clicking on a LOF or
427 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
429 * When selecting a type which *is* already selected, the content in the
430 browser window vanishes
431 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
433 * TOC crashes (simply make a few sections, subsections, sections; then add TOC
434 before all sections and click on the left button)
435 FIXED (Abdel, sometimes in november 2006).
437 * Items in the TOC cannot be moved using drag & drop (Joost 4/11/06).
438 WONTFIX (Abdel 2006-11-17): at least not for 1.5.0, this is just candy anyway.
440 * M-x is broken (does not bring up the minibuffer).
441 FIXED (Bo, 2006-11-18): set toolbar flag in display function.
443 * open a file; mark with the mouse and scroll; assert will fail:
444 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
446 * Selection highlighting is broken. Test case: two paragraphs with "Hello"
447 and "World"; move cursor past "Wor", press Shift+Up
448 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
450 * Mac Crash (Bennett 3/11/06):
451 On launch from GUI (by double-clicking on the LyX icon). As I reported before,
452 this happens only when using the GUI; I can successfully start LyX from the
453 Terminal, with or without gdb. Hence the only debug information I get is this,
454 printed out in Console.app when I try launching from the GUI (note that the
455 number changes everytime):
457 Wrong command line option `-psn_0_182321153'. Exiting.
459 Hint from Andreas Vox: LyX must accept any option starting with '-psn' and
460 pass it oon to the Qt initialisation. On Mac this gives the app a link to the
462 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-25): Arguments are now passed to QApplication.
464 * In the math control panel, "Detach panel" is broken (only 1 button is
465 visible in the detached panel).
466 FIXED (Edwin/Ugras 2006-11-XX)
468 * Command completion in the minibuffer shows a huge blank area below the proposed
469 commands. Clicking in that empty area crashes LyX.
472 * Copy/paste using middle mouse button inserts musical notes.
473 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11): Confirmed by Michael who couldn't reproduce on SuSE Linux 9.3)
475 * new document; insert note; place cursor in front of the note; activate change tracking;
476 press delete => assertion failed
477 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11)
479 * new document; insert note; insert "hello" into note; place the cursor at the beginning of the note;
480 activate change tracking; press backspace => seg fault
481 FIXED (Michael 2006-11-25)
483 * Mac Crash On quit (Bennett).
484 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-20)
486 * Drawing oddities on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
487 Lines occasionally overlapping vertically, math characters not properly
489 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11).
491 * Icons in the toolbars do not have the correct size, they are stretched a few
492 pixels compared to 1.4. This makes the images look jagged and the initial
493 window size has also become to small to show the whole toolbar
494 (Joost 4/11/06). See also the math panel buttons entry above.
495 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-28)
497 * The -geometry option doesn't work on Windows (it did in 1.4.x)
498 c:\> lyx-qt4.exe -geometry 800x600+100+30
499 Wrong command line option `-geometry'. Exiting.
500 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-29)
502 * When I "Save as..." in /tmp, I get a Backup error popup about non writable
503 /tmp, which is obviously not true. The file is there, and if I try to Save
504 as again, I get the overwrite popup warning twice: once in English, once
505 in French. (J. P. Chretien)
506 FIXED (Michael (found the problem), Georg (fix), 2006-11-30)
508 * It is ridiculous that you have to call configure with --with-frontend=qt4.
509 The existance of config/qt.m4 does not make much sense either.
510 The first one is FIXED, the second WONTFIX (JMarc 07-12-2006)
512 * Open de_Intro.lyx => The footnote text in the title section exceeds the
514 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-09). This was due to wrong metrics for small caps.
516 * Spell checking cannot be invoked a second time.
517 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). Abdel accidentally committed some test code in
518 revision 14970 which I reverted.
520 * The first time the spell checker is started, an empty window shown instead
521 of the first misspelled word.
522 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). This bug had the same resaon as the previous one.
524 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; click on the previous paragraph
525 with mouse to change the focus: lyx crashes. (happens on Win XP SP2,
526 MSVC 2005 Prof., Scons)
527 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-11)
529 * open lyx, create a new document, enter a few chars, quit, click cancel, lyx
531 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-12)
533 * Non-ascii filenames do not work at all and result in an assertion or garbage.
534 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-12).
536 * LyX tries to delete /tmp if it is called with invalid arguments
537 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-13)
539 * Start lyx, open a document, scroll down, open a new window, move
540 the cursor back, lyx crashes because par::rows() is cleared when the
541 new window is created.
542 FIXED (Bo 2006-12-13)
544 * Start lyx, open a doc, open another window for the same
545 document. Now, from window A, click at paragraph X, scroll down to paragraph Y,
546 switch to window B, click, switch back to window A. When mouse moves, editXY()
547 finds the correct pit for paragraph Y, when click, editXY() finds paragraph X
548 and scroll back to it. (Bo, 12/14/2006)
549 FIXED (Abdel 2006-12-15)
551 * In the citation dialog, the shortcut for "&Find" does not work
552 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-17)
554 * Graphics dialog: The order of fields is broken (when using <TAB> to jump from
555 one field to another)
556 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-18)
558 * Mysterious *.po entry:
560 #: src/frontends/qt4/ui/QViewSourceUi.ui:31
562 "<html><head><meta name=\"qrichtext\" content=\"1\" /></head><body style=\" "
563 "white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Sans Serif; font-size:13pt; font-"
564 "weight:400; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none;\"><p style=\"-qt-"
565 "paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; "
566 "margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;\"></p></body></html>"
568 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-19)
570 * Loading de_Userguide.lyx results in two parse errors:
571 Paragraph ended in line 21206
573 Paragraph ended in line 21301
575 I don't know if that is a lyx2lyx or LyX problem. LyX 1.4 can read the file.
576 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-17). It turned out that it was a math parser problem
577 (bug 3034). It was introduced by the conversion of mathed to unicode,
578 because two methods Parser::tokenize() with different semantics existed.
580 * In the splash screen, the LyX version number is printed with a very, very
581 small font size such that it becomes almost invisible on Windows.
582 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-21)
584 * Change Tools->Preferences->User interface->User interface to something like
585 "kornel.default.ui"; save prefs; exit LyX; restart LyX; => crash;
586 in the preferences file, there is an entry \bind_file "/Something/kornel.default"
588 In QPrefsDialog.C:1736, function PrefUserInterface::select_ui() calls
589 form_->controller().browseUI(qstring_to_ucs4(uiFileED->text())))
592 browseLibFile(lyx::from_ascii("ui"), file, lyx::from_ascii("ui"),
593 _("Choose UI file"), FileFilterList(_("LyX UI files (*.ui)")));
594 In this function, the extension is removed, because it is the default ("ui" in
595 this case). This behaviour applies to
596 ControlPrefs::browsebind, ControlPrefs::browseUI
597 ControlPrefs::browsekbmap, ControlPrefs::browsedict
598 Setting the default extension here to something invalid, is a hack, but works.
599 (Invalid may be e.g. "*")
600 FIXED (Enrico and Georg 2006-12-21)
602 * When loading a LyX file from a Windows directory with a German Umlaut, I get the
605 Assertion triggered in __thiscall lyx::support::FileName::FileName(const class
606 std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > &)
607 by failing check "empty() || absolutePath(name_)" in file C:\...\src\support\filename.C:47
609 If I rename the directory (no Umlaut), I can load the file without a problem.
610 FIXED (Enrico and Georg 2006-12-21)
612 * when opening an already opened document (or a document with newer backup),
613 the mouse pointer turns into a clock, although it waits for confirmation
614 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-21)
616 * The style name in the BibTeX Bibliography panel (near the Browse... button)
617 disappears after closing and reopening the panel.
618 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-22)