[Kmymoney-devel] KMyMoney 4.5 is out. The stable version for KDE4 has arrived.

[Mikael Kujanpaa]

Alvaro Soliverez <asoliverez at kde.org>:
> The KMyMoney is pleased to announce the release of a stable version
> for KDE Platform 4. With over 15 months of development, this new
> version is the starting point of a new series of KMyMoney versions to
> leverage the stellar features offered by the KDE Platform.

Hi, and congratulations on your good work! I just downloaded and compided new 
release, and in general I was amazed how well it worked starting from 
compilation. It felt very polished and truly as a native KDE 4 application, 
which it is, of course. However, I also noticed some issues. In general these 
are quite a minor ones, which speaks itself pretty much about the high quality 
of this release.

Here is what I noticed. Please don't take this list in any way offensively, 
these are just things I noticed while I was testing it. The list of working 
things would be tens or hundreds times longer. :)

- The graphs: there were some rendering problems. The lines width changed in 
the middle of graph, and also some characters were broken in same way. 
Resizing the window usually moved the problem to other part. Please see: 
http://koti.kapsi.fi/mahead/temp/homepage_forecast.png , 
http://koti.kapsi.fi/mahead/temp/homepage_forecast_marks.png

- Sum's were not always drawn on the top of the bar graphs. Also seeing the 
date for specific bar was pretty difficult, please compare KDE3 and current 
version: http://koti.kapsi.fi/mahead/temp/networth_change_KDE3.png and 
http://koti.kapsi.fi/mahead/temp/networth_change_KDE4.png . The rendering 
speed had also some issues, for example the grid was drawn about 10 sec later 
than rest of the graph.

- In line graph with values, the marks for specific points were quite big. 
Maybe it could be changed to be a little bit smaller and related to the 
selected line width?

- In the ledger view, there were text boxes for increasing and decreasing the 
balance. While I think this is good change, the meaning of the boxes weren't 
very clear. I had to test what they do before I knew. Also, using the increase 
text box in first time caused KMyMoney to crash. However, the second time I 
tested it, it worked okay so I cannot repeat the crash.

- When the split editor is left and there is dialog asking about unmatching 
sums (with three radio buttons), I have to press three times down arrow from 
my keyboard before the selection was changed to second option.

- Generally, the user interface feels a little bit sluggish. Various features 
caused the window to be redrawn with speed that cannot match the old version. 
For example, in ledger view I have the form hidden. When I create new 
transaction, it draws quite slowly (about 5 sec) the form in the screen. Or, 
the reconsilation function: if I clear the transaction by pressing ctrl + 
space, it takes second or two to actually change the status of transaction.

- In the help / About KMyMoney. In the translation tab, is the content as it 
is meant to be? It seems to display generally KDE translators, not the ones 
who actually translated KMyMoney. Not very big issue thought. :)

Here were my quick observations. I would say that issues with graphs were most 
visible ones and therefore might give bad karma for some users. Also the 
sluggisness might be something that many don't like.

But I want to stress, that although I listed only issues here, I'm still very 
impressed with the quality of this release. About everything from old version 
were there functioning as they should!

> Right after we take some a deep breath and some rest, because this has been 
> very stressful to all of us.

Please, have a plenty of rest and take some extra deep breath too. :) You have 
well deserved it!

Mikki