[kmymoney] [Bug 498485] Depot Balance Chart completely wrong

[Brendan]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498485

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--- Comment #3 from Brendan <KDE at Coupe7.com> ---
Most users understand what KMM is and when they find an issue they report the
bug here and help the developers track it down and correct it. As a long term
user I have found the developers very helpful and very appreciative when I have
reported problems. Every once in a while someone tries your approach and it
never works very well. I doubt you will get any feedback from the developers.

Personally I never used the "Show Balance Chart" that you are having a problem
with. It took me a while to figure out how to open it since your explanation
was incomplete. See how hard it is to document things perfectly? Seems like you
should be asking for it to be in the right click menu for the individual
investments.

I compile KMM from the source code and you could not be more wrong that no
development has been done in more than 2 years. They have been working on a new
version (5.2) for many years and released the last update to the current
release (5.1) over 2 years ago. I believe there have been some patches to the
current release version since the last release but their focus is on releasing
the new version (5.2). I believe you can find the latest test version (5.2) for
Windows but I run it on Linux and do not remember where you get those. Had you
asked nicely, you probably would have gotten help finding it. Be careful using
it since you seem to be allergic to software bugs. I doubt there have been any
changes to the show balance chart since most of the work has been on the
ledger.

The chart you are complaining about does not look correct in 5.1 on my system.
Once 5.2 is released I suspect they may have some time to correct it. It's been
very clear for the close to 20 years that I have been using KMM that it is not
great at handling investments and I'm hoping when things settled down the
developers will have time to improve that area.

Without specifics and an example KMM file, your other complaints are impossible
to comment on or address. I think the Windows version can have problems that do
not exist in the Linux version so that might be part of the problem. My reports
have always been accurate and I use them for my taxes every year. They always
match my tax documents unless I make a data entry error.

As far as KMM being dangerous, it has never given me as much as a paper cut. If
you think hyperbole is going to help, I think you will be disappointed.

To be clear, I am a user and have found KMM a very useful tool for almost 20
years. I was an Microsoft Money user before that. If you don't like it, try
something else. I have tried a few other programs in the past and I have not
found any that work as well as KMM for my use. 

I know, I know, my attitude is the problem. I figure you will need to get the
last word in and then you can move on to GnuCash. I'm sure they will enjoy your
bug reports over there. I would not stay up late waiting for any more responses
here.

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