[Kmymoney] Kmymoney (Qt4) speedup tip

[Allan]

On 09/06/12 16:10, Nick Leverton wrote:
> Having just upgraded from Kmymoney 1.05 (running on Trinity
> KDE3-compatible desktop) directly to 4.6.3, I was disappointed by how much
> less snappy KMM 4.6 seems on the same machine and with the same data file.
> It made it no longer a quick and pleasant job to do my weekly account
> updates because I was waiting so long for screen redraws, especially
> when editing or adding transactions manually or when marking cleared.
>
> However a tip I picked up from another list on speeding up Qt4
> applications improves KMM quite a bit as well.
>
> Simply append "-graphicssystem raster" to the kmymoney command line and
> you can swap views instantly, and load new accounts/ledgers in about a
> second instead of 5 or 6 seconds.  When I edit a transaction in-place,
> now the form displays in one redraw instead of redrawing each widget
> separately.
>
> A few things are still quite slow, for instance clicking on the
> "cleared/reconciled" column in the ledger view to clear an item causes a
> full screen repopulate it seems.  But on the whole it's a very worthwhile
> improvement.  I hope this idea might be useful to other people also !
>
> Nick

While there were certainly issues initially, for me at least, they have 
been resolved for some time now, and trying your suggestion makes no 
noticeable difference here.

I wonder if this could be a distro issue?  What makes me wonder is your 
mention of 4.6.3.  Unless I missed something, 4.6.2 is the current 
release.  What distro do you use?  Of course it could also be a hardware 
issue, or a file size thing.

Never-the-less, I'm pleased you're pleased.

Allan