Bug#583806: iceape-browser uses 97% cpu when sitting idle

2010-05-30 Thread markhobley
Package: iceape-browser Version: 2.0.4-1 Severity: important The iceape browser uses 97% cpu when sitting idle. This causes the window manager and other applications to slow to a crawl. Mouse and keyboard actions are delayed whilst waiting for iceape to catchup. This seems to be happening at

Bug#583711: copy and paste bug

2010-05-29 Thread markhobley
Package: epiphany-browser Version: 2.30.2-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/epiphany I am unable to copy information from the epiphany browser and paste this into kompozer. The clipboard (buffer=CLIPBOARD) is somehow becoming cleared following a drag over event, prevent the selected data from

Bug#583718: Editor window does not refresh when viewing created page

2010-05-29 Thread markhobley
Package: gmanedit Version: 0.4.2-1 Severity: normal Following creation of a basic page, from the Menu: View, View Created Page. This opens a window containing the formatted man page. By moving or minimizing this window, the main editor window remains unrefreshed, and contains gaps where the

Bug#583719: An option to display images is required

2010-05-29 Thread markhobley
Package: epiphany-browser Version: 2.30.2-1 Severity: normal Currently there is no option to not display images on the website. This causes wasteful bandwidth when the images are not required, and may cause a cost overhead for people using metered internet. An additional option would be useful

Bug#580107: Unable to drag mouse over text for the purpose of copy and paste

2010-05-03 Thread markhobley
Package: twitux Version: 0.61-3 Severity: minor There is a bug in twitux, which causes the entire message section to become selected, when the text is clicked on. This makes it impossible to select parts of a message for the purpose of copying and pasting to another application. -- System

Bug#580151: kompozer: cannot create a link to a folder

2010-05-03 Thread markhobley
Package: kompozer Version: 1:0.8~b3.dfsg.1-0.1 Severity: normal The kompozer tool does not allow creation of a link to a folder. The browse tool has an open button, rather than a select button. Clicking on the open button, causes the folder to open, rather than be selected for linking. It may

Bug#580159: Attempting to change selected text to body text only changes first line

2010-05-03 Thread markhobley
Package: kompozer Version: 1:0.8~b3.dfsg.1-0.1 Severity: normal I am editing a web page using kompozer. I select a block of text that I wish to use as body text. On the toolbar under the menu, there is a dropdown list that reads (mixed). I click on this, and select body text. This only changes

Bug#579915: iceape-composer: OK button needs more than 10 clicks to be effective

2010-05-02 Thread markhobley
Package: iceape-browser Version: 2.0.3-5 Severity: normal Using iceape composer, I have created a table containing icon images. Each icon will link to an absolute URL on the world wide web. I now attempt to create the link: Rightclick: image, Context menu: Image and link properties, Tab: Link,

Bug#579191: CSS visited elements allow for disclosure of users browser history

2010-04-26 Thread markhobley
Package: epiphany-browser Version: 2.30.2-1 Severity: normal There is a Disclosure of user information security flaw in the epiphany browser due to the implementation of support for CSS :visited pseudoclass elements. It is possible to specify a background-url attribute which will make a request

Bug#579086: right click on table cell, does not provide option for table cell properties

2010-04-25 Thread markhobley
Package: kompozer Version: 1:0.8~b3-2 Severity: normal When editing a table, a right click on a table cell does not provide the table cell properties ... menu option. This option is required here, because it allows for adjustment of image vertical alignment, as well as providing other options.

Bug#579136: CSS visited elements allow for disclosure of users browser history

2010-04-25 Thread markhobley
Package: midori Version: 0.2.2-1 Severity: normal There is a Disclosure of user information security flaw in the midori browser due to the implementation of support for CSS :visited pseudoclass elements. It is possible to specify a background-url attribute which will make a request to the

Bug#578820: Disable stylesheet is greyed out for some websites

2010-04-22 Thread markhobley
Package: konqueror Version: 4:4.3.4-1 Severity: normal The menu option to disable the stylesheet is greyed out, making it impossible to ignore the stylesheet information for some websites. Mark. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (60,

Bug#578823: Problem copying and pasting between konqueror and other applications

2010-04-22 Thread markhobley
Package: konqueror Version: 4:4.3.4-1 Severity: normal Intermittently a fault occurs on konqueror, where I am unable to paste text that have selected from another application into the form text box on konqueror (neither the right click method (via PRIMARY), nor the CLIPBOARD (Menu, Edit, Paste)

Bug#578442: Selecting form text from right to left causes scroll selection

2010-04-19 Thread markhobley
Package: konqueror Version: 4:4.3.4-1 Severity: normal In konqueror, I am editing a textbox in a form that contains several pages of text. If using a mouse, I am left handed, and sometimes select text using a right to left motion. If the selection reaches the left hand edge of the text box

Bug#578253: CSS visited elements allow for disclosure of users browser history

2010-04-18 Thread markhobley
Package: konqueror Version: 4:4.3.4-1 Severity: normal There is a Disclosure of user information security flaw in the konqueror browser due to the implementation of support for CSS :visited pseudoclass elements. It is possible to specify a background-url attribute which will make a request to

Bug#578153: Multiple clipboards and cut and paste buffers in X11

2010-04-17 Thread markhobley
Package: general Severity: normal This report covers problems with multiple cut and paste buffers due to multiple clipboards being used in X11 applications. Problems include: being unable to paste data copied from an X11 application into a console mode application. Inconsistent and confusing

Bug#577447: Pauses of several seconds whilst menu options are being displayed

2010-04-11 Thread markhobley
Package: iceape-browser Version: 2.0.4-1 Severity: normal I am running iceape-composer. If I click an option on the menu, such as File, there is a delay of several seconds before the menu actually appears. During this time, the system CPU utilization shoots up to 95%, and top reveals this to be

Bug#577134: Proxy returns different messages for blocked http and blocked https requests

2010-04-09 Thread markhobley
Package: tinyproxy Severity: normal I have blocked google-analytics.com via the block list. If I point the browser at http://ssl.google-analytics.com/ I get an error as follows: Cache Error! The following error has occured: The request you made has been filted Generated by tinyproxy (1.6.3) Ok,

Bug#576366: RFP: archie -- A prospero client for the archie service

2010-04-03 Thread markhobley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: archie Version : 1.4.1 Upstream Author : Clifford Neuman (b...@isi.edu) * URL : ftp://markhobley.yi.org/upstream/archie/ * License : Prospero Programming Lang: C Description : A prospero client for the

Bug#576372: RFP: dynamag -- A screen magnifier for Unix/Linux

2010-04-03 Thread markhobley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: dynamag Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Bas Cancrinus * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/dynamag/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : A screen magnifier for Unix/Linux DynaMag is a

Bug#575190: iceape-composer: facility to change letter case of selected text

2010-03-23 Thread markhobley
Package: iceape-browser Version: 2.0.1-1 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/iceape It would be useful to be able to change the letter case of selected text from within the iceape-composer editor. I suggest some new menu options as follows: Format, Text Style, Change Lettercase, Lowercase Format,

Bug#574924: RFP: oftpd -- A lightweight anonymous ftpd server daemon

2010-03-22 Thread markhobley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: oftpd Version : 0.3.7 Upstream Author : Shane Kerr sh...@time-travellers.org * URL : http://www.time-travellers.org/oftpd/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : A lightweight anonymous ftpd

Bug#574889: RFP: hbasic -- A visual style compiled basic and integrated development environment

2010-03-21 Thread markhobley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: hbasic Version : 2007-2a Upstream Author : Marcus Engels * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/hbasic/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : A visual style compiled basic and integrated

Bug#574659: Upgrade from lenny to sid, tinyproxy no longer accepts remote connections

2010-03-19 Thread markhobley
Package: tinyproxy Severity: normal Upgrading from Lenny to Sid, tinyproxy no longer accepts connections from a remote host. Mark. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (60, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i386) Kernel: Linux

Bug#574046: Missing word: sanitize

2010-03-15 Thread markhobley
Package: dict-gcide Severity: wishlist The word sanitize does not appear in the dictionary. Mark. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (60, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i386) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-486 Locale: LANG=en_GB,

Bug#573608: dict has an annoying dependence on gawk

2010-03-12 Thread markhobley
Package: dict Version: 1.11.2+dfsg-2 Severity: normal The dict package has an annoying dependence on gawk. This drags gawk onto the installation, even if an alternative awk interpreter is available. By manually removing gawk, the dict client continues to operate normally, so this dependency can

Bug#573500: RFP: cronometer -- A nutrition and biomarker tracking tool

2010-03-11 Thread markhobley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: cronometer Version : 0.9.7 Upstream Author : Aaron Davidson * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/cronometer/ * License : Common Public Licence Programming Lang: Java Description : A nutrition and

Bug#573502: RFP: nut -- Record and analyze meals for nutrient composition

2010-03-11 Thread markhobley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: nut Version : 15.3 Upstream Author : Jim Jozwiak * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/nut/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Record and analyze meals for nutrient composition Nutrition

Bug#573507: RFP: dmak -- Diet Monger Ass Kicker

2010-03-11 Thread markhobley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: dmak Version : 2009-January Upstream Author : Jerry Story * URL : http://jtstory.fortunecity.com/programs-dmak.html * License : Public Domain Programming Lang: Euphoria Description : Diet Monger Ass

Bug#571681: The save option does not provide a mechanism to save as a new file

2010-02-26 Thread markhobley
Package: gmanedit Version: 0.4.2-1 Severity: normal When an attempt is made to save a newly created manual page, the save option does not ask for a filename, but instead opens a file browser and does not provide the facility to save the document. -- System Information: Debian Release:

Bug#571578: RFP: xmind -- Social brainstorming and mindmapping

2010-02-25 Thread markhobley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: xmind Version : Upstream Author : Brian Sun and Stephen Zhu * URL : http://www.xmind.net/ * License : EPL Programming Lang: Java Description : Social brainstorming and mindmapping A cool piece of

Bug#571304: apt keeps trying to add packages that not selected for installation

2010-02-24 Thread markhobley
Package: base Severity: normal I am using Debian testing. Whenever, I try to add or remove a package, I keep getting a message that the following packages will be installed: The following NEW packages will be installed aptitude-doc-en geoip-database libclass-accessor-perl libfont-afm-perl

Bug#568670: resizing centre cells moves right hand cells to off page

2010-02-06 Thread markhobley
Package: abiword Version: 2.8.1-2 Severity: minor If an attempt to enlarge a centre cell in a table, the right hand cells can be resized off the page, instead of the right hand cell shrinking to fit the maximum width of the table. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers

Bug#567748: Facility to crop and resize images

2010-01-30 Thread markhobley
Package: gpaint Version: 0.3.3-3 Severity: wishlist This is a feature request to include a facility to crop images. Mark. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (60, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i386) Kernel: Linux

Bug#566648: xgalaga window does not display properly in 800x600 mode icewm

2010-01-24 Thread markhobley
Package: xgalaga Version: 2.1.1.0-3 Severity: normal Using icewm, at a resolution of 800x600, the xgalaga ship is hidden below the toolbar. I am not sure whether this bug is within xgalaga or the window manager at this time. Mark. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT

Bug#565627: No keyboard equivalents for drag to change order configuration

2010-01-17 Thread markhobley
Package: geeqie Version: 1.0~beta2-1 Severity: minor Menu, Edit, Preferences, Configure This Window, Section: Layout. Drag to change order has no keyboard equivalents. This causes a problem for accessiblity users (with limited dexterity), or users of mouseless or touchscreen based systems, who

Bug#565560: close option exits program if only one document is open

2010-01-16 Thread markhobley
Package: abiword Version: 2.8.1-2 Severity: normal If only one document is open, the close option exits the program. The operator probably does not want to exit the program, but to simply close a document before opening another one. It would be better that only the quit option is used to exit the

Bug#565561: merge cells option uses an archaic system

2010-01-16 Thread markhobley
Package: abiword Version: 2.8.1-2 Severity: wishlist The merge cells option has an archaic merge left, merge right system for single cells, instead of a merge selected cells system. If multiple cells are selected, then it would be much better for the merge cells option to simply merge the

Bug#565564: stylesheet can remove save option from images

2010-01-16 Thread markhobley
Package: iceweasel Severity: normal When visiting certain web pages, when a page is viewed in a stylesheet, it does not have a save option on the rightclick of an image. Without the stylesheet (View, Use Style, None), the save option appears. Maybe we need an option here, to prevent the

Bug#565566: Enhancement: provide a bug report number before exiting

2010-01-16 Thread markhobley
Package: reportbug Version: 3.48 Severity: wishlist It would be better if the reportbug tool displayed a bug number, when a bug has been reported, rather than having to wait for this to come through by email. (I guess that this probably means an infrastructure change on the bug handling system

Bug#564636: iceape-browser pops up a default plugin dialogue box

2010-01-10 Thread markhobley
Package: iceape-browser Version: 2.0.1-1 Severity: normal As I visit certain websites, I get a pop dialogue box appearing as follows: Default Plugin This page contains information of a type (application/x-shockwave-flash) that can only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-in. Click OK to

Bug#564511: The executable file would be better located in /usr/bin/X11

2010-01-09 Thread markhobley
Package: rxvt Version: 1:2.6.4-14 Severity: minor The rxvt binary would be better to install in /usr/bin/X11/rxvt rather than in /usr/bin. Rationale Files for the X windowing system should not be intermixed with files that are part of the base system. This allows the X windowing system

Bug#563543: iceweasel uses multiple incompatible copy and paste buffers

2010-01-03 Thread markhobley
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.0.6-3 Severity: normal File: iceweasel The iceweasel browser is using two incompatible copy and paste buffers. Drag the mouse over a piece of text now select copy from the menu. (This should now be on the clipboard). Now drag the mouse to select another piece of

Bug#563586: Provide a switch to prevent autoconf from changing shell

2010-01-03 Thread markhobley
Package: autoconf Severity: wishlist If the autoconf tool is run under a particular shell, the autoconf tool may switch shell during build (via m4sh _AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL). This causes a problem with package testing, because a test or development machine may incidentally have an additional

Bug#563410: Unable to copy text from popup dialogue boxes

2010-01-02 Thread markhobley
Package: iceape-browser Version: 2.0.1-1 Severity: minor It is not possible to copy text from popup boxes produced by the iceape browser. For example, the browser may pop up a dialogue box as follows: Default Plugin This page contains information of a type (application/x-shockwave-flash) that

Bug#563421: Add delete folder option to right click context menu

2010-01-02 Thread markhobley
Package: gqview Version: 2.0.4-4 Severity: wishlist In the top left window, where the folder view shows, by applying a right click event it is possible to create a new subfolder or rename the existing folder. It would be useful to have the option of deleting empty folders here too. Mark. --

Bug#563062: iceape-composer: after pasting link, right delete removes part of pasted text

2009-12-30 Thread markhobley
Package: iceape-browser Version: 2.0.1-1 Severity: normal A bug has appeared in iceape-browser, which exhibits as follows: Compose a simple page as follows: This is a test, goddammit, the rest I tell you! Highlight the text a test and create a link to www.foobar.com Now highlight the link a

Bug#561982: kompozer: has a high cpu usage even when it is sitting idle

2009-12-21 Thread markhobley
Package: kompozer Severity: normal Top shows cpu usage for kompozer to be around 58% even when it is sitting idle. Other packages, such as abiword and iceweasel idle with less than 1% cpu usage. As a comparison, iceape composer uses about 10% during the editing process and again idles at less

Bug#561983: iceape: ignores preferences in the /etc/iceape/prefs/base.js file

2009-12-21 Thread markhobley
Package: iceape-browser Version: 1.1.17-2 Severity: normal I am using Debian (squeeze/testing). I have installed the iceape browser and composer suite. I have configured preferences in /etc/iceape/prefs/base.js as follows: // Disable java lockPref(security.enable_java, false); // Get rid of

Bug#561862: midori: crashes with illegal instruction error

2009-12-20 Thread markhobley
Package: midori Version: 0.1.10-1 Severity: normal The midori browser crashes with an illegal instruction error, when a proxy server is being used. Mark. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (60, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386

Bug#557311: Facility to produce phonic letter sounds

2009-11-21 Thread markhobley
Package: espeak Version: 1.37-1 Severity: wishlist I would like the facility to be able to produce the phonic sounds of letters, rather than the names of the letters. If I type: espeak 'a, b, c, d, e, f, g' This gives ay bee see dee ee eff jee I am writing some educational software and I

Bug#556279: Game fails to start giving opcode error on AMD K5

2009-11-15 Thread markhobley
Package: bzflag Severity: normal Attemptiong to run bzflag on an AMD K6 fitted with an ATI Radeon 9250 and using the open source radeon driver gives an error as follows: $ bzflag X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed

Bug#553635: Javascript waits for infinitity for blocked content

2009-11-01 Thread markhobley
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.0.6-3 Severity: normal I visit the following website: https://secure.beepy.co.uk/checkout/ The browser freezes whilst waiting for ssl.google-analytics.com, which is blocked by proxy. I need to somehow tell the browser to skip waiting for this connection and to

Bug#552694: Laser servo diskette drives have stopped working in Debian Lenny

2009-10-28 Thread markhobley
Package: kernel Severity: normal On Debian Etch, I can copy data to a laser servo diskette drives using cpio as follows: find ./ -type f -depth -print | cpio -ocv /dev/hdc However, this facility appears to have stopped working on Lenny and gives an error: find: warning: you have specified

Bug#547718: Unable to select text in alert boxes for copy

2009-09-21 Thread markhobley
Package: kompozer Version: 1:0.8~alpha4+dfsg+svn163-2 Severity: minor If an alert box appears in Kompozer, it is currently not possible to drag the mouse over the text for the purposes of copying the message to a clipboard, notepad or other application. This means that the message has to be

Bug#547716: Opening a named document in a new session causes a pathname error.

2009-09-21 Thread markhobley
Package: kompozer Version: 1:0.8~alpha4+dfsg+svn163-2 Severity: normal The is a bug in the kompozer tool that causes a pathname error when an attempt is made to open a document, whilst another session of kompozer is open: Supposing you have two files: /rhubarb/foobar/foo.html

Bug#547470: Javascript: windows still gain focus with raise and lower disabled

2009-09-19 Thread markhobley
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.0.6-1 Severity: normal A website can steal focus, preventing normal task switching operations from taking place within the X11 system. (causing the browser to regain focus, if a task switch takes place), such as via the following link:

Bug#546697: for disabled preferences, remove applicable buttons from the windows

2009-09-15 Thread markhobley
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.0.6-1 Severity: minor This is a minor cosmetic change. If a set of preferences are disabled via lockPref, then the relevant control buttons can be removed from the windows: If addons is disabled via lockPref(xpinstall.enabled, false), then the manage add-ons

Bug#546728: RFP: brexx -- A lightweight rexx interpreter

2009-09-15 Thread markhobley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: brexx Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Vassilis Vlachoudis vasilis.vlachou...@cern.ch * URL : http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/rexx/brexx/html/rx.htm * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : A

Bug#546445: A revised m4sh.m4 may be ineffective

2009-09-13 Thread markhobley
Package: autoconf Severity: normal After the /usr/share/autoconf/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 file is modified on the system, autoconf may still generate the old macros when an attempt is made to generate a configure file. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy:

Bug#546010: RFP: simpleticket -- A highly scalable multiuser trouble ticket system

2009-09-10 Thread markhobley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: simpleticket Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Architel * URL : http://simpleticket.net/ * License : GNU GPL Programming Lang: Ruby Description : A highly scalable multiuser trouble ticket system The

Bug#546027: lockpref does not work against proxy server settings

2009-09-10 Thread markhobley
Package: iceweasel Version: 3.0.6-1 Severity: normal The lockpref facility does not work against proxy server settings, enabling users to be able to bypass the system proxy server. I have added the following entries to the /etc/iceweasel/pref/iceweasel.js configuration file, but the settings do

Bug#545503: A user that guesses the admin password can access shell commands

2009-09-07 Thread markhobley
Package: cvstrac Severity: normal The cvstrac has a potential security issue, whereby if a hacker gains knowlege of the administrative password, he can gain access to shell commands and compromise the whole system. Here is the issue: The hacker obtains the administrative password via brute

Bug#545395: aborts with No data found, aborting when -c switch provided

2009-09-06 Thread markhobley
Package: retchmail Severity: normal If retchmail is invoked with a -c option to specify an alterntive configuration file, it aborts with an error: retchmail -c /etc/retchmail/retchmail.conf No data found, aborting -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy:

Bug#545397: The mail delivery agent mechanism does not allow parameter passing

2009-09-06 Thread markhobley
Package: retchmail Severity: normal The mail delivery agent mechanism does not allow parameter passing. This means that a wrapper script may be required to provide a suitable syntax for invocation of the mail delivery agent: [MDA Override] f...@foobar.com = /usr/sbin/procmail -d The above will

Bug#544948: Cursor keys do not work over message list

2009-09-03 Thread markhobley
Package: mailody Version: 0.5.0-5 Severity: minor The cursor keys do not work over the list of messages: After clicking on the message list (giving focus), instead of being able to cursor up and down through the message list, the message window scrolls up and down. It would be useful to be

Bug#544951: There is no facility to display text below icons

2009-09-03 Thread markhobley
Package: mailody Version: 0.5.0-5 Severity: minor There is currently no facility option to display text below icons in the toolbars. Also, there is a red cross icon to the left of the search box, that has no explainatory note. Maybe it would be better to the right of the search bar with the