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

[Cristian Oneţ]

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