[Kmymoney] Re: Cannot edit payee list

[Cristian Oneț]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Ian Millington <ian at ianmillington.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On 01/04/11 00:48, aga wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ian
>>
>> We mustn't lose sight of what Cristian said, that there is a bug that
>> may be relevant, although I'm not seeing it, at least with your
>> anonymised file.
>>
>> "22 Mar KMM Seg Faults after editing payee" Ubuntu
>> "12 Mar 4.5.3 hangs for ~60 seconds upon right clicking payee from
>> payees tab" Ubuntu
>> "3 Mar 4.5.3 get an error when delete some payees" svn
>>
>> The 12 Mar post is the one Cristian is linking to  yours.
>>
>> I created a copy of your file and edited almost all payees to be a
>> single new payee.  When I click that payee, nothing shows for
>> ~16seconds.  Right click then takes a further 10 seconds, so it's
>> possible there's a connection.  The other few payees react immediately.
>>
>> Allan
>>
>
> Allan
>> Bingo! That's it, and I'm afraid that was staring me in the face all
>> the time. The fact I couldn't do anything with it at all, with the
>> laptop fan banging away, led me to believe the program had crashed.
>> Add to that clicking on the close botton resulted in a not reponding
>> message and I was convinced.
> However, on you relinking this I decided to make a selection and sit
> back and wait. There is a 45 second delay after selecting the payee and
> choosing an action (be that double-clicking to view transactions or
> using the delete button) but thereafter it works. Once a payee has been
> selected to all appearances you can't do anything else. So if you want
> to select multiple payees each one will take 45 seconds. So if you want
> to delete 2 payees, you highlight the first, which you can see you
> select the second (not visible) then hit the delete button (not visible)
> but 90 seconds later you are asked if you want to delete both payees.
> Working in the dialog box to select a replacement payee works as normal.
> Then when you go back to working in the payee pane, it's 45 seconds per
> click again. Very weird. I have for good measure started KMM in a
> terminal to do all this, but the terminal conveys no more info than the
> earlier log.
>
> To some extent, it would appear that I have wasted a few people's time,
> for which I apologise, but because you are not experiencing it with the
> file I am using it's clear not everyone is suffering from it, so it's
> not a universal problem. Could it be distro-specific?
>

When I have confirmed the entry in bugs.kde.org I only did it after
being able to reproduce the problem on my system. Since I use Gentoo I
would say that it's not distro specific problem but indeed the KDE4
version of KMyMoney has a performance problem in the payees view.

Regards,
Cristian