On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 01:04:40PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Sven Hoexter wrote:
Hi, I'm sorry for the late answer. >> I've nearly given up on searching for a testcase where it's reproducible now. >> Out of curiosity I've taken a look at the bugs filled against LyX in the >> Ubuntu launchpad thingy last week and found at least those three describing >> the same problem: >> > > Hum, why are those people discussing the bugs there instead of our bugzilla > and/or the mailing lists? I don't know how Ubuntu is organised but in the Debian project every package has a maintainer and he should take care of the reported bugs. All users are motivated to report their bugs in the Debian BTS and the maintainer should decide what to do with them. If he has no time or motivation they will be left rotting. To be honest it took us (Per and myself) over 1.5 years to finally sort out all the bugs reported against the Debian package. Now we've left only a handfull of more or less usefull reports. Mostly 5+ years old. :( I'm not a bit surprised that the situation on the Ubuntu front is similar to the one we had a year ago. If nobody cares to try to reproduce the bugs and forward them if needed they will stay there for a very long time nearly untouched. <hints_for_other_users> So if some other users would like to help: You can always try to find out if bugreports are valid or not and report your results back. If you've hit a bug that seems to be obviously not a packaging problem and not very Debian specific everyone would win if you'd report it directly here or in the LyX Bugzilla. For the reporters it's usefull if you at least answer requests for more information and use existing email addresses for the reports. Lately I had someone to report a bug with a volatile email address set to receive only three mails. I was tempted to simply close the report without even reading it. If we forward your bugreport it would help if you'd register yourself in the LyX Bugzilla and subscribe yourself to the report so that you can answer questions that may arise. It's not possible to play human proxy and cross-forward all comments between the different bugtrackers. </hints_for_other_users> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/136632 >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/129813 >> > The slowness due to external clipboard has been solved in 1.5.2 IIRC. As to > the scrolling and redraw problem, I am almost certain that it is an issue > with X11 and the Window manager. LyX uses a pixmap (QPixmap) for the work > area drawing and this is handled at the server side under X11; if for some > reason, the pixmap transfer to screen is delayed, LyX will obviously appear > to be very slow. I cannot do much without some profiling result but I > understand at the same time that it's hard to profile if the slowness is > intermittent. I could send out a patch that uses an image instead of a > pixmap for drawing; the difference is that an image will be processed by > the X11 client. This could speedup local execution of LyX but will be a > problem for LyX over the network. Hm ok then let it stay as it is. >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/94706 >> > Scrolling will be fixed in 1.6. Cool. Thanks for the explanations Abdel. :) Cheers, Sven -- There's no need for tears, cause there's no need to cry. That love that you leave will never be denied. [ Flogging Molly - Laura ] Gebuehrenboykott 2008 BU WTAL http://www.boykott-wuppertal.de
