[kmymoney] [Bug 469431] Need better way to handle changes in stock price quote source

[KB.claim]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469431

--- Comment #49 from KB.claim <kb.claim at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Brendan from comment #48)
> As a user for almost 20 years I find this comment pretty insulting to the
> developers and the users.
> 
> "kmm is not for the masses, it is an experimental tool with no visible
> development, non existent documentation and "mail lists"."
> 
> Go find a version from 20 years ago and tell me there has been no visible
> development. I'm extremely glad that's not what I was told before I started
> using KMM. I have found the developers to be very helpful when I run into
> issues and Thomas has gone way above and beyond helping track down online
> banking issues for me over the years.
> 
> While development has essentially stopped on 5.1 for a while now, that's
> because the focus is on the master version, which you are welcome to run. Of
> course, it's not released so it's actually experimental to some degree.
> 
> The Yahoo issue has been a problem, but blaming the KMM team make little
> sense. It would be nice to find the perfect solution, but sometimes that's
> in the eye of the beholder. I have no problem editing the Yahoo settings
> when there is a problem. Tracking down the latest settings is usually as
> easy as asking on the mailing list if you don't find it there already. I
> also compile KMM weekly (when things were changing) so updating through the
> code works for me but releases are pretty rare so that's not a great option
> for everyone. Maybe a simple link on the  "Update Stock and Currency" window
> to a web page that has the latest settings for online quotes would help.
> Maybe a link to the KMM Online Quote Settings page in the same window would
> also help, but I'm not sure that's possible with the existing code.
> 
> For now, I hope they focus on releasing the master and then maybe some
> wishlist items can get in their queue.
> 
> They say you get what you pay for but I think KMM is an example where we get
> a lot more than we pay for.
> 
> I suggest you either offer helpful suggestions and deal with what we have or
> find some other program to track you finances. Or better yet, join the
> development team and make some visible improvements.
> 
> Brendan Coupe

agree, "freak" is most likely the wrong word, let's use nerds, geeks,
enthusiasts.

your and the other comments just confirm that kmm is not for the masses, the
masses have no idea what nightly builds are, cannot compile (which includes
me), have no idea what a mailing list is, or regexp, and most likely cannot
even properly install kmm, and so on, i.e. not for the masses, just for the
enthusiasts, who have worked themselves into a vast number of software
developemtn and admin tools.
There is no word of blame against any developer from my side, i am solely
describing the user experience, and the status of the program as perceived by
someone not being that "nerd, geek, enthusiast" to understand all these tools.

The kmm website states to want to be the easiest tool to use or so - sorry,
just as objectively as possible - this is far from the truth. Nothing is easy
with kmm, installation, documentation, setup, online rates, depot/stocks,
reports. It really needs considerable time to test and try to get ahead and
there is 0 approachable documentation on most topics. 

My contribution to the project is here - by giving uncomfortable status. I was
starting to help with the documentation, but there is no way i found to
reasonably contribute. Send comments to jack, about what? An completely
outdated pdf guide? I have not found a documentation project where one can edit
...

It appears you can retrieve stock quotes - i cant and have searched and tried
and tested for days and many hours. Can you post here how you get the rates
updated and FX?

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