[Kmymoney] Re: KMM4 (MUCH) SLOWER THAN KMM2

[timothy]

That's interesting. 
In general terms why is KDE better than Gnome for KMM? 
Would you say that KDE is a more powerful desktop environment?
Was a historic decision made to develop on KDE or did it just happen?


On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 07:07 -0800, Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
> KMyMoney is a KDE application. The benefits we get from the
> integration with KDE outweight other issues, so far.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:59 AM, timothy <timboyle at afrihost.co.za> wrote:
> > Yes it is 4.5.0. Is a later version available?
> >
> > I was wondering if there could not be a GMyMoney or is that a bit much
> > to ask for?
> >
> > If I only update kdelibs and kdepimlibs will that keep me totally
> > updated? I can then trash the rest?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 10:35 +0200, Cristian Oneţ wrote:
> >> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:03 AM, timothy <timboyle at afrihost.co.za> wrote:
> >> > Hi
> >> > I have just upgraded to ubuntu maverick from lucid and have had kmm4
> >> > installed by default (I guess). I was previously running KMyMoney 1.0.5
> >> > using KDE 3.5.10 on Ubuntu Lucid.
> >>
> >> Can you please be more specific about the version? Is it 4.5.0?
> >>
> >> > I find 4 slower than 2. Is this because I am running ubuntu and not
> >> > kubuntu? For instance just to change the status of a transaction in the
> >> > ledger (C,R) - the orange bar at the bottom indicates 100% and one waits
> >> > for some seconds for the change to take place. Is it necessary to show a
> >> > progress bar for such a simple operation?
> >>
> >> This is a known issue. The way things are now the problem is not so
> >> simple as hiding the progress bar :). Unfortunately we only had
> >> resources to do the migration to KDE4 while trying to maintain feature
> >> parity. It will take some development efforts to improve this area.
> >> The 4.5.1 version which is going to be released next week has a small
> >> improvement for this. But a fix that would work for your version also
> >> is to try and hide some really old transactions from the ledger like
> >> reconciled transactions or transactions prior to a specific date see
> >> http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/online-manual/details.settings.html#details.settings.general.filter
> >> for a description on how to do that.
> >>
> >> > Also I am experiencing many updates via the Update Manager for the KDE
> >> > platform. Is this extra software dead weight because of the kmm4 needing
> >> > more of KDE? Things like the "get new hot stuff' v3 library for KDE. Do
> >> > I really need this?
> >>
> >> KMyMoney 4.x does not need "more KDE" then 1.x. We can only say that
> >> KMyMoney depends on kdelibs and kdepimlibs (only for kaddressbook and
> >> gpgme), after all it's still a KDE application, the rest depends on
> >> your packager. The question about "get hot new stuff" should really be
> >> addressed to him.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Cristian
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