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 * 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 * Change Tools->Preferences->User interface->User interface to something like
40 "kornel.default.ui"; save prefs; exit LyX; restart LyX; => crash;
41 in the preferences file, there is an entry \bind_file "/Something/kornel.default"
43 In QPrefsDialog.C:1736, function PrefUserInterface::select_ui() calls
44 form_->controller().browseUI(qstring_to_ucs4(uiFileED->text())))
47 browseLibFile(lyx::from_ascii("ui"), file, lyx::from_ascii("ui"),
48 _("Choose UI file"), FileFilterList(_("LyX UI files (*.ui)")));
49 In this function, the extension is removed, because it is the default ("ui" in
50 this case). This behaviour applies to
51 ControlPrefs::browsebind, ControlPrefs::browseUI
52 ControlPrefs::browsekbmap, ControlPrefs::browsedict
53 Setting the default extension here to something invalid, is a hack, but works.
54 (Invalid may be e.g. "*")
58 SPELL CHECKING (Joost 4/11/06)
60 * Words with umlauts or accents do not arrive as a whole word in the spell
62 PARTIALLY FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10): pspell should work (untested), ispell
63 works if lyxrc.isp_use_input_encoding == true, aspell works on linux,
64 cygwin and native windows (it is not clear yet whether it works on OS X).
65 ispell (if lyxrc.isp_use_input_encoding == false) does not work yet.
67 * The cursor does not go to the currently checked word (or maybe it goes,
68 but the screen is not updated so that one does not see the word).
70 * When replacing a misspelled word during spell checking, the screen is not
76 * In TOC, the buttons "Up", "Down", "Promote", and "Demote" are not
77 self-explaining. Why don't we group them in two pairs: Section Up/Down, Level
78 Up/Down? The arrangement of the buttons may also give some hint to the user.
80 * The items in the treeview are editable
85 * when opening an already opened document (or a document with newer backup),
86 the mouse pointer turns into a clock, although it waits for confirmation
88 * If you try to view a document as postscript that cannot be typeset because
89 of LaTeX errors and export to LaTeX afterwards you will get the old error
90 list again, although the export succeded.
92 * Citation dialog: Create some citation; open the citation dialog a second time for
93 another new citation => the selected entry from the first citations is
94 already selected for the second citation (which is wrong)
96 * Citation dialog: If you use the cursor up/down keys to browse through the
97 list of available citations, the "preview" (in the middle of the dialog)
103 * In the math control panel, there is no icon for the "Fractions" button.
105 * In the math control panel, the buttons are too small.
106 The reason is probably that qt resizes the icons so that they fit into the
107 button, leaving some margin. This leads to different scales for each icon.
108 qt3 did not resize the icons. Can this be set in qt4, too? MG: Why don't we
114 * The visual table size selection on the the "Insert Table" dialog has gone
117 * The UI for bullet selection in the documents settings looks weird
119 There is a big listbox just to select one of the four levels.
120 Isn't this supposed to be a drop-down list or something like that?
122 * The bullet selection widget shows the bullets in 5 columns (instead of 6)
123 for me, and hence does not fit into the window.
126 * The style name in the BibTeX Bibliography panel (near the Browse... button)
127 disappears after closing and reopening the panel.
131 MULTIPLE WINDOWS / DOCUMENTS
133 * There are cursor problems when the same document is opened in two windows
136 Information from Abdel:
137 Yes, this is the famous dEPM bug (delete Empty Paragraph Mechanism).
138 There are two ways to fix that:
139 1) the correct way: fix the dEPM to not invalidate the cursor.
140 2) the easy way: disable the cursor on focus out event and re-enable it at
141 focus in event and jump the saved position (at focus out).
144 TOOLBARS & MINIBUFFER
146 * When toolbars are hidden, they pop up again after clicking on the document
147 area (Joost 4/11/06).
148 Comment by Bo: Can not reproduce, details please.
153 * Tooltips are no longer shown
158 * Some oddities with View menu on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06): DVI does not appear
159 in the menu, even though a converter and viewer are defined in Preferences.
160 It turned out that this was a user error: a configuration file of 1.4 was
161 used without the document flag.
162 This should definitely be documented somewhere before the final release,
163 because many users will copy their old config files.
165 * Mysterious *.po entry:
167 #: src/frontends/qt4/ui/QViewSourceUi.ui:31
169 "<html><head><meta name=\"qrichtext\" content=\"1\" /></head><body style=\" "
170 "white-space: pre-wrap; font-family:Sans Serif; font-size:13pt; font-"
171 "weight:400; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none;\"><p style=\"-qt-"
172 "paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; "
173 "margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;\"></p></body></html>"
179 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; from the
180 environments combo box on the top left corner select anything, e.g., 'Part';
181 try to enter text => you can't!
182 MG: This must be a GUI problem; when using keyboard shortcuts (Alt-P-...),
183 the problem does not occur; it does not matter whether the cursor is in the last line
184 JSpitzm: The problem is that the workarea doesn't get focus after the combo selection.
186 * Open "de_Intro.lyx"; mark first word ("Einführung"); invoke "ert-insert" => seg fault
188 On Linux, valgrind reports:
190 ==23645== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
191 ==23645== at 0x825942D: lyx::(anonymous namespace)::numberOfHfills(lyx::Paragraph const&, lyx::Row const&) (paragraph.h:332)
192 ==23645== by 0x826250E: lyx::LyXText::computeRowMetrics(lyx::Buffer const&, int, lyx::Row const&) const (text.C:1307)
193 ==23645== by 0x826815F: lyx::LyXText::cursorX(lyx::Buffer const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool) const (text.C:2209)
194 ==23645== by 0x83A3072: lyx::InsetText::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insettext.C:343)
195 ==23645== by 0x833D909: lyx::InsetCollapsable::cursorPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::CursorSlice const&, bool, int&, int&) const (insetcollapsable.C:245)
196 ==23645== by 0x81DE9AA: lyx::bv_funcs::coordOffset(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (cursor_slice.h:58)
197 ==23645== by 0x81DECC4: lyx::bv_funcs::getPos(lyx::BufferView const&, lyx::DocIterator const&, bool) (bufferview_funcs.C:221)
198 ==23645== by 0x81FCBD4: lyx::LCursor::getPos(int&, int&) const (dociterator.h:125)
199 ==23645== by 0x81FFED5: lyx::LCursor::setTargetX() (cursor.C:938)
200 ==23645== by 0x82716EE: lyx::LyXText::setCursorIntern(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:722)
201 ==23645== by 0x8270EE2: lyx::LyXText::setCursor(lyx::LCursor&, int, int, bool, bool) (text2.C:687)
202 ==23645== by 0x8161333: lyx::cap::pasteParagraphList(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::RandomAccessList<lyx::Paragraph> const&, unsigned, lyx::ErrorList&) (CutAndPaste.C:630)
204 * edit->text style->capitalize/lower/upper case doesn't work due to change
205 tracking-related changes.
207 * insert->note->lyx note, enter a few chars, collapse the note. Copy the note
208 several times (three lines?), use mouse to select. Lyx crashes with
210 Assertion triggered in void lyx::LyXText::dispatch(lyx::LCursor&, lyx::FuncRequest&) by failing check "cur.text() == this" in file src/text3.C:323
212 NOTE: this is unrelated to the button face-lift patch.
217 * No change bar is given in LaTeX output if (only) the par break has changed
219 * In tables, cut & paste (complete cells) do not support change tracking
221 * When accepting or rejecting changes, paragraphs with deleted par breaks are
222 not merged (in top-level pars & in nested text insets)
224 * When running "find & replace", the cursor is not moved forward, such
225 that LyX always offers to replace the same string
227 * LyX crashes if you want to accept/reject an end-of-par character only
232 * environments when using czech translation doesnt work: e.g.
233 itemize("Polozka") -> ERROR (layoutSelected): layout not found! (P. Sanda)
236 PAINTING & PERFORMANCE
238 * Open de_UserGuide.lyx; go to the end of the document; click into the footnote (with the mouse -
239 this is important for the test case); add a character into the note
240 => the complete footnote is expanded but only the current line is repainted
242 * In the splash screen, the LyX version number is printed with a very, very
243 small font size such that it becomes almost invisible on Windows.
245 * END_LABEL_* handling in RowPainer::paintLast() is broken. In regular text,
246 label boxes are not completely visible (because we shrinked the margin on
247 screen?). Inside of insets, they don't work at all.
249 * Too much painting 2 (Edwin 3/11/2006): There is also a lot of painting going
250 on when selecting text. When selecting a word the whole screen is repainted.
251 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): there's a full repaint only when the mouse is
252 released. More to come in this area.
254 * Too much painting 1 (Edwin 3/11/2006): when i click in the workarea (to put
255 the cursor in another part of the text) the screen is repainted *twice*
256 whereas it seems to me that no repainting is necessary at all.
257 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
259 * Too much painting 3 (Edwin 3/11/2006): the screen is repainted even when the
260 selection does not change (moving the mouse with the left button pushed down
261 always triggers a repaint).
262 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): When within the main text inset only the
263 current line is repainted.
265 * The cursor is not L-shaped for foreign languages
267 * Slowness on MAC 1 (Bennett 3/11/06):
268 There seems to be a fraction of a second lag between when I press a key and
269 when the letter appears on screen -- but the time lag doesn't obviously vary
270 with the amount of text on the screen (as was the case previously). Right now,
271 the speed of normal text entry makes LyX-1.5 usable on my
272 not-fast-but-still-not-outdated computer. (Not sure how it would be on my
273 slow-but-still-usable laptop.)
275 * Slowness on MAC 2 (Bennett 3/11/06):
276 Speed is still an issue typing in insets: noticeable lag between typing and
277 text appearing on screen. This does not seem to be compounded by having nested
278 insets, and it seems to be compounded only a little by the amount of text in
279 the inset. (This is especially a problem in math environments.)
280 PARTLY FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): except for math insets.
282 * Slowness on MAC 3 (Bennett 3/11/06): Some operations that with 1.4 are
283 pretty much instantaneous (inserting a footnote, dragging the mouse, switching
284 to LyX from another application, opening dialogs, etc.) take quite a long time
287 * Some math symbols are not displayed (from Enrico Forestieri)
288 I noticed that some math symbols are not shown on screen. This seems
289 to be platform dependent. The following is a table illustrating the
290 situation on three different platforms. Here "no" means that the
291 symbol is not shown on screen (the symbol is invisible but occupies
292 space: it is as a sort of \phantom), and "yes" that it is shown.
293 ---------------------------------------
294 Symbol Linux Solaris Cygwin
295 ---------------------------------------
301 \spadesuit(*) yes no yes
302 ---------------------------------------
303 (*) On solaris, a square is shown on screen instead of nothing.
304 - Further comments from Georg: This is probably a qt4 font drawing problem,
305 since \Omega works fine in 1.4.3, and my debugging results showed that the
306 correct font is found and used (cmr10).
307 - Solved problem with \int and \oint on Windows (Enrico 2006-12-06).
313 * Many issues with toolbars on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
314 Most obvious of which are that icons are spaced too widely and that changes in
315 the visibility of the toolbars with the GUI do not stick after the screen is
318 * Many issue with dialogs on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
319 Most obviously: the Preferences dialog -- which can only be accessed now via
320 keyboard command, not from the menu -- appears initially too small and must be
321 resized; not possible to select buttons with the keyboard).
323 The prefs dialog size should be better now. See below (JSpitzm-2006-11-07).
325 * Menu bar disappears on MAC (instead of being disabled) when dialogs appear.
330 * There should be a close button on the tabs (Joost 3/11/06).
331 There is now a Qt feature request:
332 http://www.trolltech.com/developer/task-tracker/index_html?id=137891&method=entry
334 * TODO toolbar popup menu, currently disabled (Peter 9/11/06)
336 * When content (sections/captions) is changed, the toc/lof/lot is not properly
338 Abdel 2006-11-17: This one is not as simple as it seems as it involves a
339 TocBackend update at each keystroke. Unless we manage to update a specific
340 TocItem, this will be a WONTFIX for 1.5.0.
343 **********************************************************************
348 * Performance on Windows is bad. On my system, scrolling the User Guide takes
349 10 seconds with LyX 1.4 and more than 30 seconds with LyX 1.5.
351 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due to spurious message in QLPainter.C,
353 * When I have the same document in two windows, only the last selected paragraph
354 in one of the windows gets updated.
356 FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due my singlePar optimization. With my last
357 commit, the optimization is enabled only if the WorkArea has the focus.
359 * No icon for "note-next" in the "review" toolbar.
361 ADDED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
363 * Branches gui broken (buttons do nothing).
365 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
367 * The title bar does not contain the document name when a new window is opened
370 FIXED (Abdel 05/11/06): This was due to "last_title" being a static variable
371 in LyXView::updateWindowTitle() and also due to a potential bug in Qt:
372 an update command to the window title seems to be ignored up until the window
375 * src/frontends/qt4/ui/QCitationUi.ui:70 "&Selected citations:" should be
376 "&Selected Citations:".
378 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
380 * In the "Math Delimiters" dialog, there is no need to repeat the term "Size"
381 for all values in the selection box; the label is already named "Size"
383 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-05)
385 * If you open Document>Settings... or Tools>Preferences... for the first time,
386 the dialog is much too small to show its content; if you invoke it the second
387 time, everything is fine.
389 This happens with qt 4.2.1 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
391 FIXED (JSpitzm-2006-11-06): force updateGeometry() after the panelstack has
392 been created (with Qt >= 4.2 only). A brute method, but it works.
394 * If you open Edit>Test Style... for the first time, the choice text for
395 "Never Toggled>Size" doesn't fit in the selection box (note that in German,
396 texts are a bit longer than in English). Interestingly, if you invoke the
397 dialog a second time, its button sizes are adjusted to their content.
399 WONTFIX: This happens with qt >= 4.2 only, it does not happen with 4.1.4/4.1.5!
400 (or maybe try to add an updateGeometry() call somewhere as well; JSpitzm).
402 * All label and button texts in the Qt4 dialogs are not translated.
404 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07)
406 * Some English menu items don't have a '&' character. (box, date, paste...)
408 FIXED (MGerz 2006-11-07). I added shortcut whereever possible.
410 * When changing the toolbar settings in the right-button context menu of a
411 visible toolbar, the modified settings are not considered for session management
413 REPLACED with a new entry, popup disabled (Peter 2006-11-09)
415 * Toolbars always show on the top of the screen, even though they are set to
416 "bottom" in the ui file (Joost 3/11/06).
418 FIXED: use the defaul.ui value only when there is no valid position stored
419 (1st start of lyx) (Peter 7/11/2006)
421 * Window positions are not remembered correctly. Each time a window is openend
422 window again it has moved towards the bottom of the screen. (Joost 3/11/06)
424 FIXED (Peter 8/11/2006)
426 * Special handling of [[...]] in text messages is disabled in messages.C
427 FIXED (Georg 2006-11-12)
429 * broken signal/slot connection:
430 Object::connect: No such signal LengthCombo::selectionChanged(LyXLength::UNIT)
431 Object::connect: (sender name: 'unitCO')
432 Object::connect: (receiver name: 'QVSpaceUi')
434 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-12)
436 * Cursor is still not visible on MAC Bennett (3/11/06).
437 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-13)
439 * crash on Windows/Mac
441 2. insert List/TOC->Bibtex Bilio
442 3. add a bibliography
443 4. View Source ->crash
444 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-14)
446 * In the TOC dialog, switching between the different TOC types (TOC, Table,
447 Float, etc.) is broken.
450 * In the TOC dialog, the slider for altering the display level is
451 non-functional (not implemented).
452 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
454 * The correct list is not selected when right-clicking on a LOF or
456 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
458 * When selecting a type which *is* already selected, the content in the
459 browser window vanishes
460 FIXED (Ugras 2006-11-17)
462 * TOC crashes (simply make a few sections, subsections, sections; then add TOC
463 before all sections and click on the left button)
464 FIXED (Abdel, sometimes in november 2006).
466 * Items in the TOC cannot be moved using drag & drop (Joost 4/11/06).
467 WONTFIX (Abdel 2006-11-17): at least not for 1.5.0, this is just candy anyway.
469 * M-x is broken (does not bring up the minibuffer).
470 FIXED (Bo, 2006-11-18): set toolbar flag in display function.
472 * open a file; mark with the mouse and scroll; assert will fail:
473 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
475 * Selection highlighting is broken. Test case: two paragraphs with "Hello"
476 and "World"; move cursor past "Wor", press Shift+Up
477 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-20): side effect of updateMetrics() cleanup.
479 * Mac Crash (Bennett 3/11/06):
480 On launch from GUI (by double-clicking on the LyX icon). As I reported before,
481 this happens only when using the GUI; I can successfully start LyX from the
482 Terminal, with or without gdb. Hence the only debug information I get is this,
483 printed out in Console.app when I try launching from the GUI (note that the
484 number changes everytime):
486 Wrong command line option `-psn_0_182321153'. Exiting.
488 Hint from Andreas Vox: LyX must accept any option starting with '-psn' and
489 pass it oon to the Qt initialisation. On Mac this gives the app a link to the
491 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11-25): Arguments are now passed to QApplication.
493 * In the math control panel, "Detach panel" is broken (only 1 button is
494 visible in the detached panel).
495 FIXED (Edwin/Ugras 2006-11-XX)
497 * Command completion in the minibuffer shows a huge blank area below the proposed
498 commands. Clicking in that empty area crashes LyX.
501 * Copy/paste using middle mouse button inserts musical notes.
502 FIXED (Abdel 2006-11): Confirmed by Michael who couldn't reproduce on SuSE Linux 9.3)
504 * new document; insert note; place cursor in front of the note; activate change tracking;
505 press delete => assertion failed
506 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11)
508 * new document; insert note; insert "hello" into note; place the cursor at the beginning of the note;
509 activate change tracking; press backspace => seg fault
510 FIXED (Michael 2006-11-25)
512 * Mac Crash On quit (Bennett).
513 FIXED (Peter 2006-11-20)
515 * Drawing oddities on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
516 Lines occasionally overlapping vertically, math characters not properly
518 FIXED (JMarc 2006-11).
520 * Icons in the toolbars do not have the correct size, they are stretched a few
521 pixels compared to 1.4. This makes the images look jagged and the initial
522 window size has also become to small to show the whole toolbar
523 (Joost 4/11/06). See also the math panel buttons entry above.
524 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-28)
526 * The -geometry option doesn't work on Windows (it did in 1.4.x)
527 c:\> lyx-qt4.exe -geometry 800x600+100+30
528 Wrong command line option `-geometry'. Exiting.
529 FIXED (Peter, 2006-11-29)
531 * When I "Save as..." in /tmp, I get a Backup error popup about non writable
532 /tmp, which is obviously not true. The file is there, and if I try to Save
533 as again, I get the overwrite popup warning twice: once in English, once
534 in French. (J. P. Chretien)
535 FIXED (Michael (found the problem), Georg (fix), 2006-11-30)
537 * It is ridiculous that you have to call configure with --with-frontend=qt4.
538 The existance of config/qt.m4 does not make much sense either.
539 The first one is FIXED, the second WONTFIX (JMarc 07-12-2006)
541 * Open de_Intro.lyx => The footnote text in the title section exceeds the
543 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-09). This was due to wrong metrics for small caps.
545 * Spell checking cannot be invoked a second time.
546 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). Abdel accidentally committed some test code in
547 revision 14970 which I reverted.
549 * The first time the spell checker is started, an empty window shown instead
550 of the first misspelled word.
551 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-10). This bug had the same resaon as the previous one.
553 * Create a new document; enter a few chars; press return; click on the previous paragraph
554 with mouse to change the focus: lyx crashes. (happens on Win XP SP2,
555 MSVC 2005 Prof., Scons)
556 FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-12-11)
558 * open lyx, create a new document, enter a few chars, quit, click cancel, lyx
560 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-12)
562 * Non-ascii filenames do not work at all and result in an assertion or garbage.
563 FIXED (Georg 2006-12-12).
565 * LyX tries to delete /tmp if it is called with invalid arguments
566 FIXED (Enrico 2006-12-13)