Asger Ottar Alstrup wrote: > Hi, > > More bugs are being reported recently, and none of the old ones have > been fixed. Thus, we are moving in the wrong direction. > > Showstoppers without hope: > - Selection with the mouse. Does not work in math nor in tables. It kind > of works in insets, although problems have been reported with this as > well. To reproduce, make a formula or a table, type some text and try to > select it with the mouse. We need a volunteer to investigate this.
This bug is fixed now. > - Crashes with multiple windows open. It seems that Buffer contains Rows > of paragraphs, and this is no good in a multiple view setting. Options: > a) Rework Buffer to not have Rows (big change, risky), b) Disable > multiple views completely for now, c) Disable multiple views of same > document only. Seems to me option C would be safe and still provide some > benefit to the user. > > - Cursor trouble: Full refresh on each blink. Abdel says it's a lot of > work to fix this without the pixamp. Options a) Spend that time, b) > Revert to old painting scheme. Given that the removal of the pixmap did > not give us any noticable speed-up, I think we should revert this change > which was done the last Monday of the meeting. > > Showstoppers with hope: > > - In math the cursor blinks at the start of the math inset and then > seems to go the correct place afterwards. I suggest that Peter's patch > which disables immediate cursor updates is applied, unless someone can > track down the bug in the math code. > > Other problems without hope: > > - Mac is unusable because of poor performance, among other things. > Options: a) Revert commit from 14th of July which disabled partial > refresh. This is a little dangerous, since it is known that this might > cause invalid coord cache entries. b) Do a), but also implement partial > coord cache refresh to make it safe. c) Implement a caching painting > scheme, such that only changed paint requests are done. > > - No UTF-8 support in LaTeX export. > > - Nice icons in change tracking missing. > > Other problems with hope: > - Copy/paste using middle mouse button inserts musical notes. > > - Branches are not unicode clean. Reported by Helge. > > - URLs in documents causes LaTeX error. Reported by Helge. > > Change tracking is being worked on, and will be done before the 14th. > > The tab bar work is settling down. I think all other pending patches > have all been applied, but it's difficult to keep track off. > > We have a bunch of problems without any hope. At the same time, people > are getting too busy to work on LyX. > > So, the future does not look too bright for LyX. In other words, we are > back in deep shit again. > > Therefore, I would suggest to freeze the code even more until progress > has been made on the hopeless showstoppers. We have some difficult > problems to solve, and those will require a concentrated effort to nail. > > The positive side to this is that each person who conquers a hopeless > showstopper is instantly a hero. > > Regards, > Asger > > -- Peter Kümmel
