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Rules:
-1. bugs that aim for 1.5.0 should be listed here.
-2. whoever fixes a bug sign his name before the bug and move it to the end of
- this file, along with a lyx-devel announcement.
-3. we need to figure out a price for the champion (and second place).
+ 1. Bugs that aim for 1.5.0 should be listed here.
+ 2. Whoever fixes a bug sign his name before the bug and move it to the end of
+ this file, along with a lyx-devel announcement.
+
+Prizes (donated by Michael):
+
+ #1: LyX-labeled Tick Tock Wall Clock
+ #2: LyX-labeled Coffee and Tea Mug
+ #3: LyX-labeled Mousepad
BUGS:
* Spell checking cannot be invoked a second time.
* The first time the spell checker is started, an empty window shown instead
-of the first misspelled word.
+ of the first misspelled word.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
* In the TOC dialog, switching between the different TOC types (TOC, Table,
-Float, etc.) is broken.
+ Float, etc.) is broken.
* In the TOC dialog, the slider for altering the display level is
-non-functional (not implemented).
+ non-functional (not implemented).
* TOC crashes (simply make a few sections, subsections, sections; then add TOC
-before all sections and click on the left button)
+ before all sections and click on the left button)
* Items in the TOC cannot be moved using drag & drop (Joost 4/11/06).
* In TOC, the buttons "Up", "Down", "Promote", and "Demote" are not
-self-explaining. Why don't we group them in two pairs: Section Up/Down, Level
-Up/Down? The arrangement of the buttons may also give some hint to the user.
+ self-explaining. Why don't we group them in two pairs: Section Up/Down, Level
+ Up/Down? The arrangement of the buttons may also give some hint to the user.
DIALOGS
* If you open Document>Settings... or Tools>Preferences... for the first time,
-the dialog is much too small to show its content; if you invoke it the second
-time, everything is fine.
+ the dialog is much too small to show its content; if you invoke it the second
+ time, everything is fine.
* If you open Edit>Test Style... for the first time, the choice text for
-"Never Toggled>Size" doesn't fit in the selection box (note that in German,
-texts are a bit longer than in English). Interestingly, if you invoke the
-dialog a second time, its button sizes are adjusted to their content.
+ "Never Toggled>Size" doesn't fit in the selection box (note that in German,
+ texts are a bit longer than in English). Interestingly, if you invoke the
+ dialog a second time, its button sizes are adjusted to their content.
* Window positions are not remembered correctly. Each time a window is openend
-window again it has moved towards the bottom of the screen. (Joost 3/11/06)
+ window again it has moved towards the bottom of the screen. (Joost 3/11/06)
MATH CONTROL PANEL
* In the math control panel, "Detach panel" is broken (only 1 button is
-visible in the detached panel).
+ visible in the detached panel).
* In the math control panel, switching between different "functions" is broken
-(retry a couple of times).
+ (retry a couple of times).
-- In the math control panel, there is no icon for "Set Math Font".
+* In the math control panel, there is no icon for "Set Math Font".
-- In the math control panel, the buttons are too small.
+* In the math control panel, the buttons are too small.
-- In the "Math Delimiters" dialog, there is no need to repeat the term "Size"
-for all values in the selection box; the label is already named "Size"
+* In the "Math Delimiters" dialog, there is no need to repeat the term "Size"
+ for all values in the selection box; the label is already named "Size"
OTHER PANELS
* The visual table size selection on the the "Insert Table" dialog is gone
-(Joost 3/11/06).
+ (Joost 3/11/06).
* The UI for bullet selection in the documents settings looks weird
-(Joost 4/11/06):
-There is a big listbox just to select one of the four levels.
-Isn't this supposed to be a drop-down list or something like that?
+ (Joost 4/11/06):
+ There is a big listbox just to select one of the four levels.
+ Isn't this supposed to be a drop-down list or something like that?
MULTIPLE WINDOWS / DOCUMENTS
* There are cursor problems when the same document is opened in two windows
-(Joost 4/11/06).
-
-Information from Abdel:
-
-Yes, this is the famous dEPM bug (delete Empty Paragraph Mechanism).
-There are two ways to fix that:
+ (Joost 4/11/06).
-1) the correct way: fix the dEPM to not invalidate the cursor.
-
-2) the easy way: disable the cursor on focus out event and re-enable it at
-focus in event and jump the saved position (at focus out).
-
-* The title bar does not contain the document name when a new window is opened
-(Joost 4/11/06).
+ Information from Abdel:
+ Yes, this is the famous dEPM bug (delete Empty Paragraph Mechanism).
+ There are two ways to fix that:
+ 1) the correct way: fix the dEPM to not invalidate the cursor.
+ 2) the easy way: disable the cursor on focus out event and re-enable it at
+ focus in event and jump the saved position (at focus out).
* There should be a close button on the tabs (Joost 3/11/06).
TOOLBARS
* Toolbars always show on the top of the screen, even though they are set to
-"bottom" in the ui file (Joost 3/11/06).
+ "bottom" in the ui file (Joost 3/11/06).
* When toolbars are hidden, they pop up again after clicking on the document
-area (Joost 4/11/06).
+ area (Joost 4/11/06).
* Icons in the toolbars do not have the correct size, they are stretched a few
-pixels compared to 1.4. This makes the images look jagged and the initial
-window size has also become to small to show the whole toolbar
-(Joost 4/11/06).
+ pixels compared to 1.4. This makes the images look jagged and the initial
+ window size has also become to small to show the whole toolbar
+ (Joost 4/11/06).
EDITING
* edit->text style->capitalize/lower/upper case doesn't work due to the change
-tracking-related changes.
+ tracking-related changes.
+
+* Copy/paste using middle mouse button inserts musical notes.
MENUS
* Some English menu items don't have a '&' character. (box, date, paste...)
-- src/frontends/qt4/ui/QCitationUi.ui:70 "&Selected citations:" should be
-"&Selected Citations:".
+* src/frontends/qt4/ui/QCitationUi.ui:70 "&Selected citations:" should be
+ "&Selected Citations:".
+
+* All label and button texts in the Qt4 dialogs are not translated.
PAINING & PERFORMANCE
* Too much painting 1 (Edwin 3/11/2006): when i click in the workarea (to put
-the cursor in another part of the text) the screen is repainted *twice*
-whereas it seems to me that no repainting is necessary at all.
+ the cursor in another part of the text) the screen is repainted *twice*
+ whereas it seems to me that no repainting is necessary at all.
* Too much painting 2 (Edwin 3/11/2006): There is also a lot of painting going
-on when selecting text. When selecting a word the whole screen is repainted.
+ on when selecting text. When selecting a word the whole screen is repainted.
* Too much painting 3 (Edwin 3/11/2006): the screen is repainted even when the
-selection does not change (moving the mouse with the left button pushed down
-always triggers a repaint).
+ selection does not change (moving the mouse with the left button pushed down
+ always triggers a repaint).
+
+* Cursor is still not visible on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06).
* Slowness on MAC 1 (Bennett 3/11/06):
-There seems to be a fraction of a second lag between when I press a key and
-when the letter appears on screen -- but the time lag doesn't obviously vary
-with the amount of text on the screen (as was the case previously). Right now,
-the speed of normal text entry makes LyX-1.5 usable on my
-not-fast-but-still-not-outdated computer. (Not sure how it would be on my
-slow-but-still-usable laptop.)
+ There seems to be a fraction of a second lag between when I press a key and
+ when the letter appears on screen -- but the time lag doesn't obviously vary
+ with the amount of text on the screen (as was the case previously). Right now,
+ the speed of normal text entry makes LyX-1.5 usable on my
+ not-fast-but-still-not-outdated computer. (Not sure how it would be on my
+ slow-but-still-usable laptop.)
* Slowness on MAC 2 (Bennett 3/11/06):
-Speed is still an issue typing in insets: noticeable lag between typing and
-text appearing on screen. This does not seem to be compounded by having nested
-insets, and it seems to be compounded only a little by the amount of text in
-the inset. (This is
-especially a problem in math environments.)
+ Speed is still an issue typing in insets: noticeable lag between typing and
+ text appearing on screen. This does not seem to be compounded by having nested
+ insets, and it seems to be compounded only a little by the amount of text in
+ the inset. (This is especially a problem in math environments.)
* Slowness on MAC 3 (Bennett 3/11/06): Some operations that with 1.4 are
-pretty much instantaneous (inserting a footnote, dragging the mouse, switching
-to LyX from another application, opening dialogs, etc.) take quite a long time
-to complete in 1.5.
+ pretty much instantaneous (inserting a footnote, dragging the mouse, switching
+ to LyX from another application, opening dialogs, etc.) take quite a long time
+ to complete in 1.5.
MAC OS X
* Cursor is still not visible on MAC Bennett (3/11/06).
* Drawing oddities on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
-Lines occasionally overlapping vertically, math characters not properly
-aligned vertically.
+ Lines occasionally overlapping vertically, math characters not properly
+ aligned vertically.
* Many issues with toolbars on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
-Most obvious of which are that icons are spaced too widely and that changes in
-the visibility of the toolbars with the GUI do not stick after the screen is
-redrawn).
+ Most obvious of which are that icons are spaced too widely and that changes in
+ the visibility of the toolbars with the GUI do not stick after the screen is
+ redrawn).
* Many issue with dialogs on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06):
-Mmost obviously: the Preferences dialog -- which can only be accessed now via
-keyboard command, not from the menu -- appears initially too small and must be
-resized; not possible to select buttons with the keyboard).
+ Most obviously: the Preferences dialog -- which can only be accessed now via
+ keyboard command, not from the menu -- appears initially too small and must be
+ resized; not possible to select buttons with the keyboard).
* Some oddities with View menu on MAC (Bennett 3/11/06): DVI does not appear
-in the menu, even though a converter and viewer are defined in Preferences.
+ in the menu, even though a converter and viewer are defined in Preferences.
* Menu bar disappears on MAC (instead of being disabled) when dialogs appear.
* Mac Crash (Bennett 3/11/06):
-On launch from GUI (by double-clicking on the LyX icon). As I reported before,
-this happens only when using the GUI; I can successfully start LyX from the
-Terminal, with or without gdb. Hence the only debug information I get is this,
-printed out in Console.app when I try launching from the GUI (note that the
-number changes everytime):
+ On launch from GUI (by double-clicking on the LyX icon). As I reported before,
+ this happens only when using the GUI; I can successfully start LyX from the
+ Terminal, with or without gdb. Hence the only debug information I get is this,
+ printed out in Console.app when I try launching from the GUI (note that the
+ number changes everytime):
-Wrong command line option `-psn_0_182321153'. Exiting.
+ Wrong command line option `-psn_0_182321153'. Exiting.
Hint from Andreas Vox: LyX must accept any option starting with '-psn' and
pass it oon to the Qt initialisation. On Mac this gives the app a link to the
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* Performance on Windows is bad. On my system, scrolling the User Guide takes
-10 seconds with LyX 1.4 and more than 30 seconds with LyX 1.5. Although I have
-a modern computer, it all feels very slow.
+ 10 seconds with LyX 1.4 and more than 30 seconds with LyX 1.5.
-FIXED (Abdel 04/10/06): This was due to spurious message in QLPainter.C, I've
-put that in Debug::PAINTING, so 1.5 is faster than 1.4 on Windows XP on my 3
-years old laptop (18s for the UserGuide test).
+ FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due to spurious message in QLPainter.C,
-* The multi-window thing is broken. When I have the same document in two
-windows, only the last selected paragraph in one of the windows gets updated.
+* When I have the same document in two windows, only the last selected paragraph
+ in one of the windows gets updated.
-FIXED (Abdel 04/10/06): This was due my singlePar optimization. With my last
-commit, the optimization is enabled only if the WorkArea has the focus.
+ FIXED (Abdel 04/11/06): This was due my singlePar optimization. With my last
+ commit, the optimization is enabled only if the WorkArea has the focus.
* No icon for "note-next" in the "review" toolbar.
-ADDED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
+ ADDED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
* Branches gui broken (buttons do nothing).
-FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
+ FIXED (JSpitzm 2006-11-04).
+
+* The title bar does not contain the document name when a new window is opened
+ (Joost 4/11/06).
+
+ FIXED (Abdel 05/11/06): This was due to "last_title" being a static variable
+ in LyXView::updateWindowTitle() and also due to a potential bug in Qt:
+ an update command to the window title seems to be ignored up until the window
+ is shown.
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