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 * 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.
42 SPELL CHECKING (Joost 4/11/06)
44 * Spell checking cannot be invoked a second time.
46 * The first time the spell checker is started, an empty window shown instead
47 of the first misspelled word.
49 * Words with umlauts or accents do not arrive as a whole word in the spell
55 * In TOC, the buttons "Up", "Down", "Promote", and "Demote" are not
56 self-explaining. Why don't we group them in two pairs: Section Up/Down, Level
57 Up/Down? The arrangement of the buttons may also give some hint to the user.
59 * The items in the treeview are editable
61 * When content (sections/captions) is changed, the toc/lof/lot is not properly
63 Abdel 2006-11-17: This one is not as simple as it seems as it involves a
64 TocBackend update at each keystroke. Unless we manage to update a specific
65 TocItem, this will be a WONTFIX for 1.5.0.
70 * when opening an already opened document (or a document with newer backup),
71 the mouse pointer turns into a clock, although it waits for confirmation
73 * If you try to view a document as postscript that cannot be typeset because
74 of LaTeX errors and export to LaTeX afterwards you will get the old error
75 list again, although the export succeded.
80 * In the math control panel, switching between different "functions" is broken
81 (retry a couple of times).
83 * In the math control panel, there is no icon for "Set Math Font".
85 * In the math control panel, the buttons are too small.
86 The reason is probably that qt resizes the icons so that they fit into the
87 button, leaving some margin. This leads to different scales for each icon.
88 qt3 did not resize the icons. Can this be set in qt4, too?
93 * The visual table size selection on the the "Insert Table" dialog has gone
96 * The UI for bullet selection in the documents settings looks weird
98 There is a big listbox just to select one of the four levels.
99 Isn't this supposed to be a drop-down list or something like that?
101 * The bullet selection widget shows the bullets in 5 columns (instead of 6)
102 for me, and hence does not fit into the window.
106 MULTIPLE WINDOWS / DOCUMENTS
108 * There are cursor problems when the same document is opened in two windows
111 Information from Abdel:
112 Yes, this is the famous dEPM bug (delete Empty Paragraph Mechanism).
113 There are two ways to fix that:
114 1) the correct way: fix the dEPM to not invalidate the cursor.
115 2) the easy way: disable the cursor on focus out event and re-enable it at
116 focus in event and jump the saved position (at focus out).
118 * There should be a close button on the tabs (Joost 3/11/06).
119 There is now a Qt feature request:
120 http://www.trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=137891&method=entry
123 TOOLBARS & MINIBUFFER
125 * When toolbars are hidden, they pop up again after clicking on the document
126 area (Joost 4/11/06).
128 * TODO toolbar popup menu, currently disabled (Peter 9/11/06)
133 * Some oddities with View menu on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06): DVI does not appear
134 in the menu, even though a converter and viewer are defined in Preferences.
135 It turned out that this was a user error: a configuration file of 1.4 was
136 used without the document flag.
137 This should definitely be documented somewhere before the final release,
138 because many users will copy their old config files.
143 * edit->text style->capitalize/lower/upper case doesn't work due to change
144 tracking-related changes.
149 * No change bar is given in LaTeX output if (only) the par break has changed
151 * In tables, cut & paste (complete cells) do not support change tracking
153 * When accepting or rejecting changes, paragraphs with deleted par breaks are
154 not merged in nested text insets
156 * When accepting a change, LyX may hang (same as in 1.4.3)
158 * When running "find & replace", the cursor is not moved forward, such
159 that LyX always offers to replace the same string
164 * environments when using czech translation doesnt work: e.g.
165 itemize("Polozka") -> ERROR (layoutSelected): layout not found! (P. Sanda)
168 PAINTING & PERFORMANCE
170 * END_LABEL_* handling in RowPainer::paintLast() is broken. In regular text,
171 label boxes are not completely visible (because we shrinked the margin on
172 screen?). Inside of insets, they don't work at all. Should we remove this
173 feature completely as the overall benefit for the user is marginal?
175 * Too much painting 2 (Edwin 3/11/2006): There is also a lot of painting going
176 on when selecting text. When selecting a word the whole screen is repainted.
177 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): there's a full repaint only when the mouse is
178 released. More to come in this area.
180 * Too much painting 1 (Edwin 3/11/2006): when i click in the workarea (to put
181 the cursor in another part of the text) the screen is repainted *twice*
182 whereas it seems to me that no repainting is necessary at all.
183 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
185 * Too much painting 3 (Edwin 3/11/2006): the screen is repainted even when the
186 selection does not change (moving the mouse with the left button pushed down
187 always triggers a repaint).
188 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): When within the main text inset only the
189 current line is repainted.
191 * The cursor is not L-shaped for foreign languages
193 * Slowness on MAC 1 (Bennett 3/11/06):
194 There seems to be a fraction of a second lag between when I press a key and
195 when the letter appears on screen -- but the time lag doesn't obviously vary
196 with the amount of text on the screen (as was the case previously). Right now,
197 the speed of normal text entry makes LyX-1.5 usable on my
198 not-fast-but-still-not-outdated computer. (Not sure how it would be on my
199 slow-but-still-usable laptop.)
201 * Slowness on MAC 2 (Bennett 3/11/06):
202 Speed is still an issue typing in insets: noticeable lag between typing and
203 text appearing on screen. This does not seem to be compounded by having nested
204 insets, and it seems to be compounded only a little by the amount of text in
205 the inset. (This is especially a problem in math environments.)
206 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
208 * Slowness on MAC 3 (Bennett 3/11/06): Some operations that with 1.4 are
209 pretty much instantaneous (inserting a footnote, dragging the mouse, switching
210 to LyX from another application, opening dialogs, etc.) take quite a long time
213 * Some math symbols are not displayed (from Enrico Forestieri)
214 I noticed that some math symbols are not shown on screen. This seems
215 to be platform dependent. The following is a table illustrating the
216 situation on three different platforms. Here "no" means that the
217 symbol is not shown on screen (the symbol is invisible but occupies
218 space: it is as a sort of \phantom), and "yes" that it is shown.
219 ---------------------------------------
220 Symbol Linux Solaris Cygwin
221 ---------------------------------------
227 \spadesuit(*) yes no yes
228 ---------------------------------------
229 (*) On solaris, a square is shown on screen instead of nothing.
230 Further comments from Georg: This is probably a qt4 font drawing problem,
231 since \Omega works fine in 1.4.3, and my debugging results showed that the
232 correct font is found and used (cmr10).
237 * open lyx, create a new document, enter a few chars, quit. Lyx does not
238 ask if you want to save the file.
242 * It is ridiculous that you have to call configure with --with-frontend=qt4.
243 The existance of config/qt.m4 does not make much sense either.
248 * Many issues with toolbars on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
249 Most obvious of which are that icons are spaced too widely and that changes in
250 the visibility of the toolbars with the GUI do not stick after the screen is
253 * Many issue with dialogs on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
254 Most obviously: the Preferences dialog -- which can only be accessed now via
255 keyboard command, not from the menu -- appears initially too small and must be
256 resized; not possible to select buttons with the keyboard).
258 The prefs dialog size should be better now. See below (JSpitzm-2006-11-07).
260 * Menu bar disappears on MAC (instead of being disabled) when dialogs appear.
264 **********************************************************************
269 * Performance on Windows is bad. On my system, scrolling the User Guide takes
270 10 seconds with LyX 1.4 and more than 30 seconds with LyX 1.5.
272 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due to spurious message in QLPainter.C,
274 * When I have the same document in two windows, only the last selected paragraph
275 in one of the windows gets updated.
277 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due my singlePar optimization. With my last
278 commit, the optimization is enabled only if the WorkArea has the focus.
280 * No icon for "note-next" in the "review" toolbar.
282 ADDED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
284 * Branches gui broken (buttons do nothing).
286 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
288 * The title bar does not contain the document name when a new window is opened
291 FIXED (Abdel 05/11/06): This was due to "last_title" being a static variable
292 in LyXView::updateWindowTitle() and also due to a potential bug in Qt:
293 an update command to the window title seems to be ignored up until the window
296 * src/frontends/qt4/ui/QCitationUi.ui:70 "&Selected citations:" should be
297 "&Selected Citations:".
299 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
301 * In the "Math Delimiters" dialog, there is no need to repeat the term "Size"
302 for all values in the selection box; the label is already named "Size"
304 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
306 * If you open Document>Settings... or Tools>Preferences... for the first time,
307 the dialog is much too small to show its content; if you invoke it the second
308 time, everything is fine.
310 This happens with qt 4.2.1 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
312 FIXED (JSpitzm-2006-11-06): force updateGeometry() after the panelstack has
313 been created (with Qt >= 4.2 only). A brute method, but it works.
315 * If you open Edit>Test Style... for the first time, the choice text for
316 "Never Toggled>Size" doesn't fit in the selection box (note that in German,
317 texts are a bit longer than in English). Interestingly, if you invoke the
318 dialog a second time, its button sizes are adjusted to their content.
320 WONTFIX: This happens with qt >= 4.2 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
321 (or maybe try to add an updateGeometry() call somewhere as well; JSpitzm).
323 * All label and button texts in the Qt4 dialogs are not translated.
325 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07)
327 * Some English menu items don't have a '&' character. (box, date, paste...)
329 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07). I added shortcut whereever possible.
331 * When changing the toolbar settings in the right-button context menu of a
332 visible toolbar, the modified settings are not considered for session management
334 REPLACED with a new entry, popup disabled (Peter 2006-11-09)
336 * Toolbars always show on the top of the screen, even though they are set to
337 "bottom" in the ui file (Joost 3/11/06).
339 FIXED: use the defaul.ui value only when there is no valid position stored
340 (1st start of lyx) (Peter 7/11/2006)
342 * Window positions are not remembered correctly. Each time a window is openend
343 window again it has moved towards the bottom of the screen. (Joost 3/11/06)
345 FIXED (Peter 8/11/2006)
347 * Special handling of [[...]] in text messages is disabled in messages.C
348 FIXED (Georg 2006-11-12)
350 * broken signal/slot connection:
351 Object::connect: No such signal LengthCombo::selectionChanged(LyXLength::UNIT)
352 Object::connect: (sender name: 'unitCO')
353 Object::connect: (receiver name: 'QVSpaceUi')
355 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-12)
357 * Cursor is still not visible on MAC Bennett (3/11/06).
358 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-13)
360 * crash on Windows/Mac
362 2. insert List/TOC->Bibtex Bilio
363 3. add a bibliography
364 4. View Source ->crash
365 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-14)
367 * In the TOC dialog, switching between the different TOC types (TOC, Table,
368 Float, etc.) is broken.
371 * In the TOC dialog, the slider for altering the display level is
372 non-functional (not implemented).
373 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
375 * The correct list is not selected when right-clicking on a LOF or
377 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
379 * When selecting a type which *is* already selected, the content in the
380 browser window vanishes
381 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
383 * TOC crashes (simply make a few sections, subsections, sections; then add TOC
384 before all sections and click on the left button)
385 FIXED (Abdel, sometimes in november 2006).
387 * Items in the TOC cannot be moved using drag & drop (Joost 4/11/06).
388 WONTFIX (Abdel 2006-11-17): at least not for 1.5.0, this is just candy anyway.
390 * M-x is broken (does not bring up the minibuffer).
391 FIXED (Bo, 2006-11-18): set toolbar flag in display function.
393 * open a file; mark with the mouse and scroll; assert will fail:
394 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
396 * Selection highlighting is broken. Test case: two paragraphs with "Hello"
397 and "World"; move cursor past "Wor", press Shift+Up
398 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
400 * Mac Crash (Bennett 3/11/06):
401 On launch from GUI (by double-clicking on the LyX icon). As I reported before,
402 this happens only when using the GUI; I can successfully start LyX from the
403 Terminal, with or without gdb. Hence the only debug information I get is this,
404 printed out in Console.app when I try launching from the GUI (note that the
405 number changes everytime):
407 Wrong command line option `-psn_0_182321153'. Exiting.
409 Hint from Andreas Vox: LyX must accept any option starting with '-psn' and
410 pass it oon to the Qt initialisation. On Mac this gives the app a link to the
412 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-25): Arguments are now passed to QApplication.
414 * In the math control panel, "Detach panel" is broken (only 1 button is
415 visible in the detached panel).
416 FIXED (Edwin/Ugras 2006-11-XX)
418 * Command completion in the minibuffer shows a huge blank area below the proposed
419 commands. Clicking in that empty area crashes LyX.
422 * Copy/paste using middle mouse button inserts musical notes.
423 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11): Confirmed by Michael who couldn't reproduce on SuSE Linux 9.3)
425 * new document; insert note; place cursor in front of the note; activate change tracking;
426 press delete => assertion failed
427 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11)
429 * new document; insert note; insert "hello" into note; place the cursor at the beginning of the note;
430 activate change tracking; press backspace => seg fault
431 FIXED (Michael 2006-11-25)
433 * Mac Crash On quit (Bennett).
434 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-20)
436 * Drawing oddities on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
437 Lines occasionally overlapping vertically, math characters not properly
439 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11).
441 * Icons in the toolbars do not have the correct size, they are stretched a few
442 pixels compared to 1.4. This makes the images look jagged and the initial
443 window size has also become to small to show the whole toolbar
444 (Joost 4/11/06). See also the math panel buttons entry above.
445 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-28)
447 * The -geometry option doesn't work on Windows (it did in 1.4.x)
448 c:\> lyx-qt4.exe -geometry 800x600+100+30
449 Wrong command line option `-geometry'. Exiting.
450 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-29)
452 * When I "Save as..." in /tmp, I get a Backup error popup about non writable
453 /tmp, which is obviously not true. The file is there, and if I try to Save
454 as again, I get the overwrite popup warning twice: once in English, once
455 in French. (J. P. Chretien)
456 FIXED (Michael (found the problem), Georg (fix), 2006-11-30)