Table of Contents
- AUCTeX
- biblatex
- Biber
- Byobu
- evil
- External editor for Outlook 2010
- fuse
- Gentoo Linux
- Gnome
- handsOffMyFace
- KDE
- LibreOffice
- MediaWiki
- Muttator
- Node.js
- org2blog
- org-clock-convenience
- org-clock-split
- org-mode
- Paludis
- PmWiki
- Poppler
- Redland RDF Libraries
- ResearchGate
- screen
- Semantic MediaWiki
- tarql
- TinyMCE
- Trac
- Tridactyl
- Vimperator
- Vim Touch
- X.org
- Zorba
- The Semantic Web (a book, not a software project)
I consider myself an active user and supporter of free software. So what do I do to support free software? Well, I do contribute code to free software projects, but most of these are academic research prototypes that are only of interest to a very small group of users. For most of the software that I am using, I neither know the code bases nor the programming languages well enough for being able to contribute. Therefore, my contribution is mainly in terms of bug reports.
I always add bugs to this list upon reporting them. I don’t update this list when the description of a bug changes, and I don’t remove bugs that turn out to be invalid or duplicated. (However, most of my bug reports are valid.)
These are bugs I have reported to various projects:
evil
- evil-execute-macro: @@ after @: executes previously executed keyboard macro
- Stuff put into black hole register appears in unnamed register
- evil-ex-search-forward broken; its use screws up other things as well
- Repeat replacement doesn’t work in “other” view of split buffer
- Highline conflicts with visual mode
- Spurious newlines inserted after pasted text; screw up undo
- evil-window-lru rotates through all windows
- Text marks [ and ] (first and last character of previously changed or yanked text)
- evil-ex-search-forward reports error instead of searching interactively
- set-mark-command in Emacs state activates Visual state
- :s@pattern@replace@: unknown command
- :s/pattern/replace/ doesn’t allow \/ in replacement
- Patch: reftex-select-bib-mode in Emacs state
- :s/pattern//g replaces with “g” instead of empty string
Gentoo Linux
- app-emacs/evil-1.0.8 version bump
- dev-lang/scala-2.10.2 doesn’t build with paludis’ “cave resolve”; unsuccessfully tries to create \/root\/.m2
- app-emacs/evil-1.0.5 version bump
- app-emacs/evil-1.0.2: version bump
- app-emacs/org-mode-8.0.1: version bump
- dev-libs/zorba-2.8.0: new ebuild
- cellwriter-1.3.5 (and please move from media-gfx to app-accessibility)
- media-plugins/kipi-plugins-3.0.0 fails to build, possibly because of missing HUpnp dependency
- app-misc/byobu: please update ebuild (e.g. to byobu-5.27)
- app-office/libreoffice-3.6.4.3 build fails with error 65280 in mysqlc
- app-text/texlive-core-2011 does not work with dev-tex/luatex-0.63.0 (does not find modules)
- dev-lang/wml-2.0.11-r4 does not work with dev-lang/perl-5.12.2-r2
- app-emacs/emacs-w3m-1.4.4-r3 doesn’t work with app-editors/emacs-23.2-r2
- dev-vcs/git-1.7.3.2[+doc] does not build (docbook2texi error)
- dev-tex/biber: new ebuild request
- World update (with paludis-0.52.3) fails because amarok-2.3.1-r2 blocks amarok-utils-2.3.1
- kde-base/okteta-4.3.3-r1: 4.3.3-fix_inverse_save_logic.patch fails
- Strigi fails to initialize; needs /usr/lib/libjvm.so
- File name collisions prevented by mutual package blocks
- ktimetracker-4.3.2 broken: reports version 4.3.1, missing menus
- media-libs/liblrdf-0.4.0 does not pull in app-crypt/mit-krb5 but link fails on -lgssapi_krb5
- kde-base/kdeplasma-addons-4.2.1-r1 fails to compile with < dev-util/cmake-2.6.3
- dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.03 crashes with SIGBUS if /tmp (tmpfs) is full
- Please move postgresql.conf to /etc
- app-editors/emacs-cvs-22.0.93-r1 doesn’t use gtk despite use flag
- sys-fs/fuse: create “fuse” group that owns /dev/fuse
KDE
Akregator
- Some feeds do not get updated until I flush Konqueror’s cache
- Restore recently closed tabs
- Article view automatically proceeds to a popup-like page
- Crash when loading PDF (using Okular plugin)
- No shortcut key for articles tab
- View mode should not be hidden in a submenu
- Drag&Drop folder crash
- “Feed” column should be shown in “directories”, not for single feeds
- Restore open tabs after crash
Amarok
- Allow for repopulating dynamic playlist when all tracks are queued
- Amarok fails silently when /tmp is full during Magnatune download
- Composer always reset to unknown
- Context menu for “Stop playing after this track” does not reflect status
- Crash on every startup (during the splashscreen)
- Current track applet always shows “No track playing”
- Media keys do not work as global shortcuts
- Repopulate playlist deleted queued tracks
- Reintroduce Queue Manager
KAddressBook
KMail
- “Add to Address Book” does not work (akonadi MySQL down?)
- Addressbook crypto settings are no longer respected
- Allow for prioritizing folders when checking mail
- Cannot delete more than one recipient by repeated clicking the “delete” icon in the text box
- Composer does not pass temp file name to the external editor
- External editor: provide option to include headers into mail
- KMail crashed after granting KWallet access once
- Locally unsubscribing in dIMAP does not take effect immediately
- Mails deleted from disconnected IMAP folder
- Mail viewer does not recognize/decrypt PGP-encrypted mail
- No shortcut key or menu entry for “open new tab”
- On pressing “J” KMail claims “ambiguous keyboard shortcut sequence detected”
- Recipients starting with multiple uppercase letters are not autocompleted in the composer
- “Send Again” does not respect Reply-To header
Konqueror
- Cannot open links found with keyboard search (find as you type)
- Can’t open pages from history in a new tab
- Can’t insert a TAB into a textarea despite “allow tabulations” unchecked
- Text area editor incredibly slow when typing
- Disable spell checking for text areas permanently
- Shortcuts for find-related actions no longer work
- nepomuksearch hasTag does not reliably display tagged files
KTimeTracker
- Configure KTimeTracker shown twice in Settings menu
- Filtering tasks by priority or title and summing their times
- Session time in status bar remains unchanged when closing file
- Search bar gets activated even when it’s hidden
- Search bar always displayed after Settings -> Configure KTimeTracker
- Small window becomes visible for some milliseconds
- Cannot hide toolbars
- No warning when timetracker file is overwritten externally
- Erroneously claiming disk is full
KWin
Okular
- Edit→Find ignores text on pages with a different orientation
- Visibility of “This document has embedded files” should be configurable, or at least remembered across sessions
- Keyboard input doesn’t work after assigning window shortcut
- synctex inverse search no longer works; Okular doesn’t respond to Shift+Click
- Crash on many ps.gz documents
MediaWiki
Muttator
- Thunderbird main window: “ReferenceError: statusline is not defined”
- dialog identities
- Temporary file deleted and mail body empty after closing external editor
- :mkmuttatorrc on Windows doesn’t use home directory but Thunderbird directory
- Muttator requires double backslash escaping for external editor path on Windows
- Search message list with /
- composer should support selecting the “From” header (i.e. identity)
- Muttator gets confused when composing mail to “Lastname, Firstname” <address@example.org>
- no explicit option for “forward as attachment”
- One-letter shortcuts unbound in Muttator “conflict” with Thunderbird’s one-letter shortcuts.
- documentation is incomplete
- Muttator gets stuck in MESSAGE (menu) mode
- “t” in command mode crashes Muttator
- help mentions :mkvimperatorrc instead of :mkmuttatorrc
org-mode
- org-dblock-update regression in case of :maxlevel 0
- Marking an item DONE using the most recently logged timestamp
- Useful interactive functions for clock logs, and workarounds for large agenda files
- Multiple groups of mutually exclusive tags no longer working
- Two functions for efficient headline navigation
- Clocking in fails when there is a dangling clock
- org-open-at-point no longer recognizes start and end timestamps of clock intervals
- org-time-stamp-inactive on the end of a CLOCK interval edits start time
- Function that splits a CLOCK interval (follow-up)
- Function that jumps to an entry with a certain CUSTOM_ID
- org-dblock-update expects function calendar-absolute-from-iso, which no longer exists
- C-c C-c doesn’t tick check box when pressed on a hyperlink in a list
- org-submit-bug-report is missing org-remember
- Gentoo ebuild for app-emacs/org-mode-8.0.1
- Sticky agenda interferes with org-open-at-point for date stamps
- org-insert-drawer doesn’t respect indentation for :END:
- can’t use square brackets in link descriptions
- Patch for org-beamer.el: mark frames containing as fragile
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