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Bugs/Problems (I) saw in N|vu

l = seen in Linux, w = seen in Windows)

  1. [SOLVED]Mozilla 1.7 crashes after giving error if started with N|vu also running. No problems if N|vu is started after starting Mozilla1.7. Although the N|vu download page does advise linux users to use Mozilla>=1.6 to resolve this, but it still happens with my Mozilla1.7.1-2(Debian) build.  l
    • Mozilla will start if you use the --no-xshm option to start it from the command line.
    • Just upgrade to Mozilla 1.7.1-3 with apt-get and everything works fine :)
  2. [SOLVED 0.50]Cursor moves to top line when changing views from Normal to <HTML> Source and other views. It should remain at the same position in the new view as it was in the earlier view. lw Solved. But the problem is that the viewing position is not remembered. For example the cursor is at the last line of the web page and you move to source view, you will be shown the top part of the code, and when you use the arrow keys, the view jumps to the end of page to show the cursor.
  3. [SOLVED] N|vu does not create external style sheet in Linux. The applied styles are shown only till the file is open. All style info is lost when the file is opened again as there is no stylesheet. However, if you create a file in the name of the stylesheet and then add styles to it using CaScadeS, styles are saved as expected. l
    4. The above problem was that Nvu wants "FULL" path to the file to create it. If one just writes foobar.css in the URL: text field, I think it tries to create a file in the root folder. However, if you write file:///home/username/path/to/foobar.css, it will create the file as expected.
  4. Width of drop down lists (Choose Paragraph Format, Choose Font, Apply a class to the Selection) changes when drop down arrow is clicked. This happens the first time they are opened after starting N|vu. lw
  5. [SOLVED in 0.40+]Error on clicking Tools>Validate HTML. (Error Launching browser window:TypeError: Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/component/browser/instance;1'] has no properties). The tip at Nvu Download page  for Linux users did help either. l 
  6. [SOLVED]Clicking Help>Nvu's Website causes Epiphany to crash. Could be a system problem too. Just noticed that Thunderbird brings up similar links just fine. l (KDE) This was solved sometime back after an upgrade to Mozilla. Same reason for bug#7.
  7. [SOLVED]Same problem as in #6 for Help>FAQ, Help>Bug reports and suggestions, and Help>Developers' community.  l
  8. [SOLVED in 0.60]Download Manager doesn't show the files downloaded when a url is opened with File>Open Web Location. l Download Manager menu has been removed in 0.6. (2Dec2004)
  9. No keyboard shortcut for CSS editor. lw
  10. [SOLVED Nvu0.50]"Choose File" for choosing a template tries to open "/home/username/My Documents" in Linux, which, by default, is not there. And the message "You do not have permissions to view this directory" is shown. The message is ridiculous as no directory  of that name exists. Is probably a windows feature floating around in Linux build by mistake? l
  11. "Retain original Source formating" messes up html code by inserting empty lines after tags like <br>, <ol>, heading tags, etc. Choosing "Reformat HTML source" changes those white spaces back to normal. (Nvu 0.50 - 0.8RC-2) w l
  12. Last/Only open Tab cannot be closed by "Ctrl+W". This is annoying when the use has two windows open with a few tabs in first and say only one tab in second window. If the use tries to close the window with the single tab by using "Ctrl+W", it does not close the window, instead opens an empty tab. And if the user tries to close the window by "Ctrl+Q", Nvu is quits and user looses the other window too. l
  13. Tab bar always shows. There is not option to remove the tab bar if only a single page is being edited. l
  14. Cannot "Paste text without formatting" with mouse in definition. Ctrl+V works fine. When I try do paste definition without formatting, the <dd> tag gets deleted and the cursor goes back to <dt> tag. l (27Jul2004)
  15. Grrr.. I loose Close button of CaScades. In case of a style having a property with length of text describing it longer than what is viewable, Close button of CaScades goes out of view. Close button is also lost if size of CaScades is reduced so that right pane is not wide enough to show all the property text lengths. l (29Jul2004)
    Close button hidden
  16. CaScades' "Down" button does not work. CaScades' "Down" button does not move the style rule down as it should. I expected it to work as the "Up" button does, but .. : (  l (30Jul2004) Update: The button's action has not been implemented yet. (7Aug2004).
  17. Editing toolbar gets truncated if width of Nvu window is less than with of editing toolbar. The toolbar should show the ">>" (two chevrons) indicating that some editing buttons are hidden. This feature works perfectly in Firefox0.9.x and Mozilla1.7(in case of Bookmark Toolbar) and is surprising that it doesn't handle toolbar nicely in Nvu. lw (1Aug2004) Click on images to see bigger images.
    Nvu with Full toolbar viewable
    Nvu with Toolbar cut
  18. Carriage Returns not visible. If I try to view carriage returns by View > Carriage Return, there is not change in the view. Carriage returns are just not visible. l (6Aug2004)
  19. Block Outline is buggy. Although View > Block Outline does show the block outlines in the current tab, it is not redered in other tabs automatically. Just like the window title was being shown only for the page opened most recently and not individually for tabs. l (6Aug2004).
  20. Cannot use @import button to import another style sheet. I tried using the "@import" button to import another style sheet. Typed in the full filename and media info, and clicked on "Create Import At Rule". At first no rule is added in CaScadeS' left pane for the @import add operation. After clicking on "Refresh", the @import rule was listed, and below it were rules from the imported style sheet. Closed CaScadeS, and saved the document. Then tried to apply a rule to a paragraph from the "Apply class to the selection" drop down menu. The drop down menu didn't have any of the style rules from the imported style sheet. Even tried editing code by hand, and no style was applied. Re-opened CaScadeS, the @import rule was still there. So, just for testing I closed the file and re-opened again, ..ahem.. the @import style rule was gone. Probably, it never gets saved in the original style sheet. l (7Aug2004).
  21. Markup cleaner doesn't show "OK" button after cleaning up. The Tools > Markup Cleaner does not change the "Clean" button to "OK" after cleaning the markup. w l (10Aug2004) till 0.8RC-2
  22. How to loose Tabs in Nvu in a few clicks. Open two or more html files. Click (left button) on empty part of tabs toolbar. Right-click on empty space in tab toolbar (context menu appears everywhere on tab toolbar!!). Click on "Close Tab". In most of the cases, both web pages which were opened will close, and you will loose the tab toolbar altogether. Bug :
    • Web pages are closed and the visible page becomes uneditable.
    • Loss of tab toolbar and items in "File > Recent". (But "Recent" entries are not lost from profile, they are there if Nvu is restarted). None of the Filemenu choices work. Composition Toolbar buttons do not work.
    • Title of the window does not change.
    • Nothing happens (very rare)
    In all cases, the "Close Tab" icon on right side is rendered disabled. Ctrl+W and Ctrl+T do not work. The only solution after this is to restart Nvu. l (15Aug2004, Nvu 0.41--0.60)
  23. 0.41 Buggy Format Toolbar behaviour. Since 0.41. I have noticed that many times when I select text and try to format it to be Heading1, Heading2, Paragraph, etc. or apply a class to it, nothing happens. After I select the text and apply format info, it just greys out the background of selected text without applying any formatting styles. l (23Aug2004, Nvu 0.41,0.50)
  24. [SOLVED] Horizontal Line Propterties dialog box doesnot change width and height properties. The Horizontal Line Properties dialog box doesnot save changes made to width and height properties. The 3-D shading, and position (left, center, right) do work as expected. But there is no change in the inline styles when either width or height  or both properties of horizontal rule are changed. It seems like that  N|vu does not remember the changes made and keeps them as they were default (100%, 2px). lw (25Aug2004, Nvu 0.41, 0.50, 0.60). Solved in 0.80RC2
  25. [SOLVED 0.60]Table cell(s) or table background colors cannot be changed after setting once. Cell background or table background color cannot be changed once it has been set with the Table Properties GUI. lw (25Aug2004, Nvu 0.41, 0.50) Works for me in 0.60. Good riddance! (2Dec2004)
  26. Nvu on Linux does not support the auto copy behaviour of selected text. In Linux, any text selected with the mouse is automatically copied in a buffer, and can be pasted with wheel mouse click. N|vu doesn't  support it. I had noticed it in 0.3, but forgot to add it earlier. l (25Aug2004, Nvu 0.3~0.8RC-2)
  27. Nvu doesnot support a:hover like style rules in Normal or Preview modes. N|vu does not render the changes as suggested by an a:hover rule in the style sheet attached with the web page. The odd behaviour has been noted in Normal and Preview mode. To view these changes, the only way out is to view the page in a web browser. l (2Aug2004, Nvu 0.41) Partial conformance has been noticed in 0.60. I can consistently see background color changes for mouse hover, but no text-decoration or link text-color changes :( (2Dec2004)
  28. Nvu does not update an image put on web page with style sheet. I have noticed that if there is a rule in the style sheet attached with an html page, changes in the image are not reflected in N|vu. E.g. I attached an image as background for body(bottom, repeated horizontally), which displayed fine. But when I made some changes to the image with an image editor, and saved, N|vu showed the same old image even after closing and reopening the html file. l (2Aug2004, Nvu 0.41) Bug pending full investigation.
  29. Save button is not activated when a particular type of change is done in a document. There are a couple of very basic operations that when done in the document being edited, do not make the "unsaved changes" red-floppy icon to appear. Also the "Save" button is greyed-out. One case I can remember is "Insert > Table of Contents > Update". I had just edited one heading and saved the document.  When I updated the TOC, Nvu didnot indicate that it needed saving. l (7Aug2004, Nvu 0.41, 0.50)
  30. No keyboard shortcut for moving between different views. There seems to be no way one could use the keyboard to move between Normal view, HTML Tags view, Source view or Preview mode. Should have noticed it long time back. l (14Aug2004, Nvu 0.41, 0.50, 0.60). 
  31. Bidirectional text cannot be indented from the right. The increase/decrease indent function works only for the left-indent. This is OK for text written from left-to-right, but provision should be made to make the feature to work on the right indent for right-to-left indent. l (14Aug2004, Nvu 0.41)
  32. Nvu Site Manager creates new directory with wrong permissions. When the user tries to create a new directory in a local site(using file:// protocol), the site manager creates the site with permissions d-wxr-----t. It is good that it sets the sticky bit but its illogical to not set the "read" bit for the owner!! The result is a directory which the user own but cannot read! l (23Aug2004, Nvu 0.41, 0.50)
  33. Nvu -edit <url> option only works with full path for local file. I tried to open this file(local copy) using $ nvu -edit nvulinux.html. But when Nvu started it said "www.nvulinux.html" not found. Nvu worked fine when I provided it with full path for the file. It should work for files in current directory. This is what is expected for a normal Linux program. Will have to check for Windows too. l (30 Aug2004, Nvu 0.41, 0.50) This problem might be eliminated when Nvu is built with Firefox 1.0
  34. Cannot change background image. If a user tries to change an already set background image, Nvu does not save the changes. The only way to do it is to delete the path for the current image, save the document to get default background. Then the user can set the new background image. l (06 Oct2004, Nvu 0.41)
  35. Insert > TOC > Update TOC does not save changes. I made a new section on a web page which already had a TOC(made with Insert > TOC > Insert). After making all changes, I saved the document. Then to insert the new section's heading to the TOC, I did Insert > TOC > Update. The changes were seen in the TOC but the "Save" button stayed in its inactive position as if there were no changes to be made. This behaviour is repeatable and reproducible 100%. Workaround: after Insert > TOC > Update, make a small change in your document and then save it. l (11 Oct2004, Nvu 0.41)
  36. Cursor looses focus(not always, but mostly when I'm editing a particular file). When I save the document using Ctrl+S, the blinking cursor is lost. This was noticed when I tried to reposition the cursor after saving to do more edits. l  (11 Oct2004, Nvu0.41, 0.50)
  37. [SOLVED]Left vertical margin bar changes width. The left vertical margin bar changes its width with changing vertical size of block. This is very annoying as it shifts the whole viewport left or right when ever this width change happens. A better option could be if the text represented vertically. But I'm not sure if its possible to do it in XUL. l (12 Oct2004, Nvu0.50) Solved in 0.60 :)
  38. Syntax highlighting for source is not done in realtime. In case I start to write something between <span></li> tags, it is show as <span> New text added in source view.</li>. The text between the tags should be rendered black rather than color of the tag. l (12Oct2004, Nvu0.50, 0.60, 0.70, 0.8RC-1, RC-2)
  39. Spell Checker does not work consistently. The spell checker works fine for the text currently being written in a file. But it does not mark the wrong/unrecognised word spellings consistently in the rest of document text. Even if it marks the wrong word spellings, it sometimes does not mark them all in the page. For example, it is not marking all the "Nvu" or "Ctrl" strings in this page. It only marks the words for the blocks of text I click on in the page. l (13 Oct2004, Nvu0.50)
  40. Add to Dictionary uses 100% cpu. When adding new words to the dictionary, Nvu uses 100% cpu for about 4-5 seconds. l (21Oct2004, Nvu0.50)
  41. How to loose all TOOLBARS in Nvu with a few clicks.(continued from #22) Open an html page in Nvu. Click somewhere on the page to bring the cursor focus to the page. In the status bar, right click on a tag and select change tag. Press "ESC" button and hover your mouse over each toolbar in Nvu. One-by-one as you hover over the toolbars, they will vanish. But don't worry, if you have an unsaved document you can save it by using Ctrl+S, and close Nvu in the normal way by Ctrl+Q , i.e. file menu shortcuts seem to work fine. The question is "Do you remember them?" l (21 Oct2004, Nvu0.50, 0.60)
  42. [WORK-AROUND] Uses 100% CPU to change from or to <HTML> Source view mode. My machine's CPU usage reaches 100% whenever I change from <HTML> Source view to any other view. l (2Dec2004, Nvu0.50, 0.60) With 0.50, when going from any view to <HTML> Source view, CPU usage was 100% for around 3-4 sec. But this is not seen in 0.60. However, 0.60 still uses 100% CPU when going from <HTML> Source view to any other view (now it takes around 10sec as compared to ~4sec with 0.50).  Spell checker was playing spoil sport. Work-around in 0.70 :)
  43. [SOLVED] Credits section of "About" shows Nvu0.60 to be based on Firefox 1.0. Although release notes indicate that Nvu 0.60 is based on Mozilla 1.7.1, the credits section of "About" says it is based on Firefox1.0. Probably, the devs forgot to roll back that part after deciding to use Mozilla 1.7.1 for 0.60. (2Dec2004, Nvu0.60) wl Solved in 0.70 :)
  44. [SOLVED] HTML Validator does not work in Nvu 0.60. Tools > Validate HTML does not work in 0.60. It opens a window but the mouse icon changes to busy and remains like that if the window is not closed. (2Dec 2004) Solved in 0.70 :)
  45. Overlapping line numebers in <HTML> Source view. Create a new document, type-in a few characters and press "Return" (i.e. Enter) once. Change to source view and you will notice that line numbers just before </body> line are overlapping!l 0.8RC-1 (Cannot reproduce in 0.8RC-2)
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(in case you have noticed buggy behaviour with N|vu, and want it to be listed here, just send me an email at boneywasawarriorvayayix at yahoo dot com with details about how to reproduce the bug, Nvu version, PC info, and OS version and if you permission to put your name/email(plain text, no mailto: tags) for reference..)

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