Re: Issues with the GUI

[Laurent Hoeltgen]

On 08/19/2012 03:14 PM, Michael D Godfrey wrote:
> On 08/19/2012 04:07 AM, Laurent Hoeltgen wrote:
>> I've managed to compile the gui and played around with it a bit. I
>> noticed some strange behaviours and just wanted to know whether these
>> issues were known or not.
>>
>> 1. Maximizing the window doesn't work 100%. The final window is a bit
>> too large and I can't see the last line of the command window. Note,
>> that this could also be a bug related to QT and the openbox window
>> manager of my lubuntu 11.10 distro, as I have similar problems with
>> Wolfram Mathematica 8 (which uses QT too).
>>
>> 2. The command window prints a warning:
>>
>> QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0(0), must be greater than 0
>>
>> However I don't see any negative consequences on this. All the fonts are
>> well readable.
>>
>> 3. Entering something like plot(sin(1:10)) shows the plot window, but
>> after I close the plot, I can't enter any further commands anymore.
>>
>> 4. The cursor and the actual position where the text is entered in the
>> command window seem to be a bit off sometimes. It has happened to me
>> that the cursor was positioned roughly 5 spaces behind the actual point
>> where text was entered.
>>
>> 5. Marking text results in shifts in the text (I guess this is related
>> to point 4.
>>
>> For the reference: I'm running lubuntu 11.10, 32bit with hg sources
>> being up to date (did a hg pull and hg update two hours ago).
>>
>> Let me know if you need any further information on this.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Laurent
> You could usefully include a summary of this in bug #37107 which also
> reports your item #3.
> 
> mdg
> 

Hi,

I added a short note on problems 3, 4 and 5 to bug #37107.

Regards,
Laurent