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
29 * Open bugs: http://tinyurl.com/y7hdzc
31 (unconfirmed/new/assigned/reopened + no enhancement + no 1.6.0 target + not 'fixedintrunk')
33 * Uncommitted patches: http://tinyurl.com/uvxat
35 (unconfirmed/new/assigned/reopened + no 1.6.0 target + keyword 'patch')
40 * make all icons of the same size(s)
45 * Change Tools->Preferences->User interface->User interface to something like
46 "kornel.default.ui"; save prefs; exit LyX; restart LyX; => crash;
47 in the preferences file, there is an entry \bind_file "/Something/kornel.default"
49 In QPrefsDialog.C:1736, function PrefUserInterface::select_ui() calls
50 form_->controller().browseUI(qstring_to_ucs4(uiFileED->text())))
53 browseLibFile(lyx::from_ascii("ui"), file, lyx::from_ascii("ui"),
54 _("Choose UI file"), FileFilterList(_("LyX UI files (*.ui)")));
55 In this function, the extension is removed, because it is the default ("ui" in
56 this case). This behaviour applies to
57 ControlPrefs::browsebind, ControlPrefs::browseUI
58 ControlPrefs::browsekbmap, ControlPrefs::browsedict
59 Setting the default extension here to something invalid, is a hack, but works.
60 (Invalid may be e.g. "*")
62 * When loading a LyX file from a Windows directory with a German Umlaut, I get the
65 Assertion triggered in __thiscall lyx::support::FileName::FileName(const class
66 std::basic_string<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > &)
67 by failing check "empty() || absolutePath(name_)" in file C:\...\src\support\filename.C:47
69 If I rename the directory (no Umlaut), I can load the file without a problem.
72 SPELL CHECKING (Joost 4/11/06)
74 * Words with umlauts or accents do not arrive as a whole word in the spell
76 PARTIALLY FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10): pspell should work (untested), ispell
77 works if lyxrc.isp_use_input_encoding == true, aspell works on linux,
78 cygwin and native windows (it is not clear yet whether it works on OS X).
79 ispell (if lyxrc.isp_use_input_encoding == false) does not work yet.
81 * The cursor does not go to the currently checked word (or maybe it goes,
82 but the screen is not updated so that one does not see the word).
84 * When replacing a misspelled word during spell checking, the screen is not
90 * In TOC, the buttons "Up", "Down", "Promote", and "Demote" are not
91 self-explaining. Why don't we group them in two pairs: Section Up/Down, Level
92 Up/Down? The arrangement of the buttons may also give some hint to the user.
94 * The items in the treeview are editable
99 * when opening an already opened document (or a document with newer backup),
100 the mouse pointer turns into a clock, although it waits for confirmation
102 * If you try to view a document as postscript that cannot be typeset because
103 of LaTeX errors and export to LaTeX afterwards you will get the old error
104 list again, although the export succeded.
106 * Open thesaurus dialog; look for keyword "hello" => seg fault
107 (on Windows, strictly following Joost's recipe with MSVC and Scons)
112 * In the math control panel, there is no icon for the "Fractions" button.
114 * In the math control panel, the buttons are too small.
115 The reason is probably that qt resizes the icons so that they fit into the
116 button, leaving some margin. This leads to different scales for each icon.
117 qt3 did not resize the icons. Can this be set in qt4, too? MG: Why don't we
123 * The visual table size selection on the the "Insert Table" dialog has gone
126 * The UI for bullet selection in the documents settings looks weird
128 There is a big listbox just to select one of the four levels.
129 Isn't this supposed to be a drop-down list or something like that?
131 * The bullet selection widget shows the bullets in 5 columns (instead of 6)
132 for me, and hence does not fit into the window.
135 * The style name in the BibTeX Bibliography panel (near the Browse... button)
136 disappears after closing and reopening the panel.
140 MULTIPLE WINDOWS / DOCUMENTS
142 * There are cursor problems when the same document is opened in two windows
145 Information from Abdel:
146 Yes, this is the famous dEPM bug (delete Empty Paragraph Mechanism).
147 There are two ways to fix that:
148 1) the correct way: fix the dEPM to not invalidate the cursor.
149 2) the easy way: disable the cursor on focus out event and re-enable it at
150 focus in event and jump the saved position (at focus out).
152 * Middle button paste does not work across windows. (Bo 12/15/06)
155 TOOLBARS & MINIBUFFER
157 * When toolbars are hidden, they pop up again after clicking on the document
158 area (Joost 4/11/06).
159 Comment by Bo: Can not reproduce, details please.
164 * Tooltips are no longer shown
169 * Some oddities with View menu on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06): DVI does not appear
170 in the menu, even though a converter and viewer are defined in Preferences.
171 It turned out that this was a user error: a configuration file of 1.4 was
172 used without the document flag.
173 This should definitely be documented somewhere before the final release,
174 because many users will copy their old config files.
179 * Create a document with an empty table; mark the whole table; insert a minipage
180 in order to have the table inside a minipage => crash
182 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; from the
183 environments combo box on the top left corner select anything, e.g., 'Part';
184 try to enter text => you can't!
185 MG: This must be a GUI problem; when using keyboard shortcuts (Alt-P-...),
186 the problem does not occur; it does not matter whether the cursor is in the last line
187 JSpitzm: The problem is that the workarea doesn't get focus after the combo selection.
189 * Open "de_Intro.lyx"; mark first word ("Einführung"); invoke "ert-insert" => seg fault
191 On Linux, valgrind reports:
193 ==23645== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
194 ==23645== at 0x825942D: lyx::(anonymous namespace)::numberOfHfills(lyx::Paragraph const&, lyx::Row const&) (paragraph.h:332)
195 ==23645== by 0x826250E: lyx::LyXText::computeRowMetrics(lyx::Buffer const&, int, lyx::Row const&) const (text.C:1307)
196 ==23645== by 0x826815F: lyx::LyXText::cursorX(lyx::Buffer const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool) const (text.C:2209)
197 ==23645== by 0x83A3072: lyx::InsetText::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insettext.C:343)
198 ==23645== by 0x833D909: lyx::InsetCollapsable::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insetcollapsable.C:245)
199 ==23645== by 0x81DE9AA: lyx::bv_funcs::coordOffset(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (cursor_slice.h:58)
200 ==23645== by 0x81DECC4: lyx::bv_funcs::getPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (bufferview_funcs.C:221)
201 ==23645== by 0x81FCBD4: lyx::LCursor::getPos(int&, int&) const (dociterator.h:125)
202 ==23645== by 0x81FFED5: lyx::LCursor::setTargetX() (cursor.C:938)
203 ==23645== by 0x82716EE: lyx::LyXText::setCursorIntern(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:722)
204 ==23645== by 0x8270EE2: lyx::LyXText::setCursor(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:687)
205 ==23645== by 0x8161333: lyx::cap::pasteParagraphList(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::RandomAccessList<lyx::Paragraph> const&, unsigned, lyx::ErrorList&) (CutAndPaste.C:630)
207 * edit->text style->capitalize/lower/upper case doesn't work due to change
208 tracking-related changes.
210 * insert->note->lyx note, enter a few chars, collapse the note. Copy the note
211 several times (three lines?), use mouse to select. Lyx crashes with
213 Assertion triggered in void lyx::LyXText::dispatch(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::FuncRequest&) by failing check "cur.text() == this" in file src/text3.C:323
215 NOTE: this is unrelated to the button face-lift patch.
217 * the insertion of Ctrl-Return cannot be undone
222 * No change bar is given in LaTeX output if (only) the par break has changed
224 * In tables, cut & paste (complete cells) do not support change tracking
226 * When accepting or rejecting changes, paragraphs with deleted par breaks are
227 not merged (in top-level pars & in nested text insets)
229 * When running "find & replace", the cursor is not moved forward, such
230 that LyX always offers to replace the same string
232 * LyX crashes if you want to accept/reject an end-of-par character only
237 * environments when using czech translation doesnt work: e.g.
238 itemize("Polozka") -> ERROR (layoutSelected): layout not found! (P. Sanda)
241 PAINTING & PERFORMANCE
243 * Open de_UserGuide.lyx; go to the end of the document; click into the footnote (with the mouse -
244 this is important for the test case); add a character into the note
245 => the complete footnote is expanded but only the current line is repainted
247 * In the splash screen, the LyX version number is printed with a very, very
248 small font size such that it becomes almost invisible on Windows.
250 * END_LABEL_* handling in RowPainer::paintLast() is broken. In regular text,
251 label boxes are not completely visible (because we shrinked the margin on
252 screen?). Inside of insets, they don't work at all.
254 * Too much painting 2 (Edwin 3/11/2006): There is also a lot of painting going
255 on when selecting text. When selecting a word the whole screen is repainted.
256 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): there's a full repaint only when the mouse is
257 released. More to come in this area.
259 * Too much painting 1 (Edwin 3/11/2006): when i click in the workarea (to put
260 the cursor in another part of the text) the screen is repainted *twice*
261 whereas it seems to me that no repainting is necessary at all.
262 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
264 * Too much painting 3 (Edwin 3/11/2006): the screen is repainted even when the
265 selection does not change (moving the mouse with the left button pushed down
266 always triggers a repaint).
267 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): When within the main text inset only the
268 current line is repainted.
270 * The cursor is not L-shaped for foreign languages
272 * Slowness on MAC 1 (Bennett 3/11/06):
273 There seems to be a fraction of a second lag between when I press a key and
274 when the letter appears on screen -- but the time lag doesn't obviously vary
275 with the amount of text on the screen (as was the case previously). Right now,
276 the speed of normal text entry makes LyX-1.5 usable on my
277 not-fast-but-still-not-outdated computer. (Not sure how it would be on my
278 slow-but-still-usable laptop.)
280 * Slowness on MAC 2 (Bennett 3/11/06):
281 Speed is still an issue typing in insets: noticeable lag between typing and
282 text appearing on screen. This does not seem to be compounded by having nested
283 insets, and it seems to be compounded only a little by the amount of text in
284 the inset. (This is especially a problem in math environments.)
285 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
287 * Slowness on MAC 3 (Bennett 3/11/06): Some operations that with 1.4 are
288 pretty much instantaneous (inserting a footnote, dragging the mouse, switching
289 to LyX from another application, opening dialogs, etc.) take quite a long time
292 * Some math symbols are not displayed (from Enrico Forestieri)
293 I noticed that some math symbols are not shown on screen. This seems
294 to be platform dependent. The following is a table illustrating the
295 situation on three different platforms. Here "no" means that the
296 symbol is not shown on screen (the symbol is invisible but occupies
297 space: it is as a sort of \phantom), and "yes" that it is shown.
298 ---------------------------------------
299 Symbol Linux Solaris Cygwin
300 ---------------------------------------
306 \spadesuit(*) yes no yes
307 ---------------------------------------
308 (*) On solaris, a square is shown on screen instead of nothing.
309 - Further comments from Georg: This is probably a qt4 font drawing problem,
310 since \Omega works fine in 1.4.3, and my debugging results showed that the
311 correct font is found and used (cmr10).
312 - Solved problem with \int and \oint on Windows (Enrico 2006-12-06).
318 * Many issues with toolbars on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
319 Most obvious of which are that icons are spaced too widely and that changes in
320 the visibility of the toolbars with the GUI do not stick after the screen is
323 * Many issue with dialogs on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
324 Most obviously: the Preferences dialog -- which can only be accessed now via
325 keyboard command, not from the menu -- appears initially too small and must be
326 resized; not possible to select buttons with the keyboard).
328 The prefs dialog size should be better now. See below (JSpitzm-2006-11-07).
330 * Menu bar disappears on MAC (instead of being disabled) when dialogs appear.
335 * There should be a close button on the tabs (Joost 3/11/06).
336 There is now a Qt feature request:
337 http://www.trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=137891&method=entry
339 * TODO toolbar popup menu, currently disabled (Peter 9/11/06)
341 * When content (sections/captions) is changed, the toc/lof/lot is not properly
343 Abdel 2006-11-17: This one is not as simple as it seems as it involves a
344 TocBackend update at each keystroke. Unless we manage to update a specific
345 TocItem, this will be a WONTFIX for 1.5.0.
348 **********************************************************************
353 * Performance on Windows is bad. On my system, scrolling the User Guide takes
354 10 seconds with LyX 1.4 and more than 30 seconds with LyX 1.5.
356 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due to spurious message in QLPainter.C,
358 * When I have the same document in two windows, only the last selected paragraph
359 in one of the windows gets updated.
361 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due my singlePar optimization. With my last
362 commit, the optimization is enabled only if the WorkArea has the focus.
364 * No icon for "note-next" in the "review" toolbar.
366 ADDED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
368 * Branches gui broken (buttons do nothing).
370 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
372 * The title bar does not contain the document name when a new window is opened
375 FIXED (Abdel 05/11/06): This was due to "last_title" being a static variable
376 in LyXView::updateWindowTitle() and also due to a potential bug in Qt:
377 an update command to the window title seems to be ignored up until the window
380 * src/frontends/qt4/ui/QCitationUi.ui:70 "&Selected citations:" should be
381 "&Selected Citations:".
383 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
385 * In the "Math Delimiters" dialog, there is no need to repeat the term "Size"
386 for all values in the selection box; the label is already named "Size"
388 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
390 * If you open Document>Settings... or Tools>Preferences... for the first time,
391 the dialog is much too small to show its content; if you invoke it the second
392 time, everything is fine.
394 This happens with qt 4.2.1 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
396 FIXED (JSpitzm-2006-11-06): force updateGeometry() after the panelstack has
397 been created (with Qt >= 4.2 only). A brute method, but it works.
399 * If you open Edit>Test Style... for the first time, the choice text for
400 "Never Toggled>Size" doesn't fit in the selection box (note that in German,
401 texts are a bit longer than in English). Interestingly, if you invoke the
402 dialog a second time, its button sizes are adjusted to their content.
404 WONTFIX: This happens with qt >= 4.2 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
405 (or maybe try to add an updateGeometry() call somewhere as well; JSpitzm).
407 * All label and button texts in the Qt4 dialogs are not translated.
409 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07)
411 * Some English menu items don't have a '&' character. (box, date, paste...)
413 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07). I added shortcut whereever possible.
415 * When changing the toolbar settings in the right-button context menu of a
416 visible toolbar, the modified settings are not considered for session management
418 REPLACED with a new entry, popup disabled (Peter 2006-11-09)
420 * Toolbars always show on the top of the screen, even though they are set to
421 "bottom" in the ui file (Joost 3/11/06).
423 FIXED: use the defaul.ui value only when there is no valid position stored
424 (1st start of lyx) (Peter 7/11/2006)
426 * Window positions are not remembered correctly. Each time a window is openend
427 window again it has moved towards the bottom of the screen. (Joost 3/11/06)
429 FIXED (Peter 8/11/2006)
431 * Special handling of [[...]] in text messages is disabled in messages.C
432 FIXED (Georg 2006-11-12)
434 * broken signal/slot connection:
435 Object::connect: No such signal LengthCombo::selectionChanged(LyXLength::UNIT)
436 Object::connect: (sender name: 'unitCO')
437 Object::connect: (receiver name: 'QVSpaceUi')
439 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-12)
441 * Cursor is still not visible on MAC Bennett (3/11/06).
442 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-13)
444 * crash on Windows/Mac
446 2. insert List/TOC->Bibtex Bilio
447 3. add a bibliography
448 4. View Source ->crash
449 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-14)
451 * In the TOC dialog, switching between the different TOC types (TOC, Table,
452 Float, etc.) is broken.
455 * In the TOC dialog, the slider for altering the display level is
456 non-functional (not implemented).
457 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
459 * The correct list is not selected when right-clicking on a LOF or
461 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
463 * When selecting a type which *is* already selected, the content in the
464 browser window vanishes
465 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
467 * TOC crashes (simply make a few sections, subsections, sections; then add TOC
468 before all sections and click on the left button)
469 FIXED (Abdel, sometimes in november 2006).
471 * Items in the TOC cannot be moved using drag & drop (Joost 4/11/06).
472 WONTFIX (Abdel 2006-11-17): at least not for 1.5.0, this is just candy anyway.
474 * M-x is broken (does not bring up the minibuffer).
475 FIXED (Bo, 2006-11-18): set toolbar flag in display function.
477 * open a file; mark with the mouse and scroll; assert will fail:
478 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
480 * Selection highlighting is broken. Test case: two paragraphs with "Hello"
481 and "World"; move cursor past "Wor", press Shift+Up
482 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
484 * Mac Crash (Bennett 3/11/06):
485 On launch from GUI (by double-clicking on the LyX icon). As I reported before,
486 this happens only when using the GUI; I can successfully start LyX from the
487 Terminal, with or without gdb. Hence the only debug information I get is this,
488 printed out in Console.app when I try launching from the GUI (note that the
489 number changes everytime):
491 Wrong command line option `-psn_0_182321153'. Exiting.
493 Hint from Andreas Vox: LyX must accept any option starting with '-psn' and
494 pass it oon to the Qt initialisation. On Mac this gives the app a link to the
496 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-25): Arguments are now passed to QApplication.
498 * In the math control panel, "Detach panel" is broken (only 1 button is
499 visible in the detached panel).
500 FIXED (Edwin/Ugras 2006-11-XX)
502 * Command completion in the minibuffer shows a huge blank area below the proposed
503 commands. Clicking in that empty area crashes LyX.
506 * Copy/paste using middle mouse button inserts musical notes.
507 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11): Confirmed by Michael who couldn't reproduce on SuSE Linux 9.3)
509 * new document; insert note; place cursor in front of the note; activate change tracking;
510 press delete => assertion failed
511 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11)
513 * new document; insert note; insert "hello" into note; place the cursor at the beginning of the note;
514 activate change tracking; press backspace => seg fault
515 FIXED (Michael 2006-11-25)
517 * Mac Crash On quit (Bennett).
518 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-20)
520 * Drawing oddities on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
521 Lines occasionally overlapping vertically, math characters not properly
523 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11).
525 * Icons in the toolbars do not have the correct size, they are stretched a few
526 pixels compared to 1.4. This makes the images look jagged and the initial
527 window size has also become to small to show the whole toolbar
528 (Joost 4/11/06). See also the math panel buttons entry above.
529 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-28)
531 * The -geometry option doesn't work on Windows (it did in 1.4.x)
532 c:\> lyx-qt4.exe -geometry 800x600+100+30
533 Wrong command line option `-geometry'. Exiting.
534 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-29)
536 * When I "Save as..." in /tmp, I get a Backup error popup about non writable
537 /tmp, which is obviously not true. The file is there, and if I try to Save
538 as again, I get the overwrite popup warning twice: once in English, once
539 in French. (J. P. Chretien)
540 FIXED (Michael (found the problem), Georg (fix), 2006-11-30)
542 * It is ridiculous that you have to call configure with --with-frontend=qt4.
543 The existance of config/qt.m4 does not make much sense either.
544 The first one is FIXED, the second WONTFIX (JMarc 07-12-2006)
546 * Open de_Intro.lyx => The footnote text in the title section exceeds the
548 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-09). This was due to wrong metrics for small caps.
550 * Spell checking cannot be invoked a second time.
551 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). Abdel accidentally committed some test code in
552 revision 14970 which I reverted.
554 * The first time the spell checker is started, an empty window shown instead
555 of the first misspelled word.
556 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). This bug had the same resaon as the previous one.
558 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; click on the previous paragraph
559 with mouse to change the focus: lyx crashes. (happens on Win XP SP2,
560 MSVC 2005 Prof., Scons)
561 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-11)
563 * open lyx, create a new document, enter a few chars, quit, click cancel, lyx
565 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-12)
567 * Non-ascii filenames do not work at all and result in an assertion or garbage.
568 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-12).
570 * LyX tries to delete /tmp if it is called with invalid arguments
571 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-13)
573 * Start lyx, open a document, scroll down, open a new window, move
574 the cursor back, lyx crashes because par::rows() is cleared when the
575 new window is created.
576 FIXED (Bo 2006-12-13)
578 * Start lyx, open a doc, open another window for the same
579 document. Now, from window A, click at paragraph X, scroll down to paragraph Y,
580 switch to window B, click, switch back to window A. When mouse moves, editXY()
581 finds the correct pit for paragraph Y, when click, editXY() finds paragraph X
582 and scroll back to it. (Bo, 12/14/2006)
583 FIXED (Abdel 2006-12-15)
585 * In the citation dialog, the shortcut for "&Find" does not work
586 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-17)
588 * Graphics dialog: The order of fields is broken (when using <TAB> to jump from
589 one field to another)
590 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-18)
592 * Mysterious *.po entry:
594 #: src/frontends/qt4/ui/QViewSourceUi.ui:31
596 "<html><head><meta name=\"qrichtext\" content=\"1\" /></head><body style=\" "
597 "white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Sans Serif; font-size:13pt; font-"
598 "weight:400; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none;\"><p style=\"-qt-"
599 "paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; "
600 "margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;\"></p></body></html>"
602 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-19)
604 * Loading de_Userguide.lyx results in two parse errors:
605 Paragraph ended in line 21206
607 Paragraph ended in line 21301
609 I don't know if that is a lyx2lyx or LyX problem. LyX 1.4 can read the file.
610 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-17). It turned out that it was a math parser problem
611 (bug 3034). It was introduced by the conversion of mathed to unicode,
612 because two methods Parser::tokenize() with different semantics existed.