Moving from 5.1.3 to 5.1.80 feedback

[Thomas Baumgart]

Mike,

On Sonntag, 24. August 2025 08:01:51 CEST Blimundus via KMyMoney wrote:

> Good morning everyone
> 
> I've been using KMyMoney for about 15 years (!!!) I think, mostly to keep track of transactions on checking accounts, in the very beginning doing a lot of the entry manually, and then mostly using csv imports. Wonderful!
> 
> I'm on MacOS, and yesterday, I had another look at the available builds, and I ended up moving from 5.1.3-7ef4c2d to 5.1.80-7f2c37e.

That version (5.1.80-7f2c37e) is the development state of Mar 12, 2024.
A lot has happened 'til then wrt to the source code (1116 changes).
Just wanted to make you aware of that.

> When I first ran the new version, I ran into the problem that is described in this bug report (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=473223), and I only saw about 10% of my transactions. Seeing that the file was not truncated and still worked in the older version of KMyMoney, I did a check with xmllint, and I ended up fixing the file like this:
> 
> > *tr -d '\000' < bad.xml > fixed.xml*
> 
> It took me a while to figure this out, but I learned a lot about working with these files from the bug report I just linked to... And I'm glad that there was no catastrophic file corruption and that KMyMoney keeps a lot of backup files anyway!
> 
> Anyway, after getting over that bump, everything is working great.
> 
> It seems like the settings screen is not available, or available but empty, until minutes after the program has launched. I could provide more diagnostics, but since this does not stop me from accessing the settings, and because maybe this problem has been fixed in later versions, I won't...

Since your version is about 18 months old, I would not suggest to
open bug reports on it.

> There's a setting now to 'hide accounts with a zero balance'. Is this setting meant to also apply to the Home view? Because for me, it doesn't, and those zero balance accounts are still shown there... It would be a cleaner look if I could hide those.

The current source has an extra option to do that. You may want to take
a look at https://discuss.kde.org/t/why-are-preferred-accounts-hidden-from-home-page-display-sections-payment-accounts/38448
how this looks like now.

> And finally, https://kmymoney.org/macos.html describes the current status of KMyMoney on MacOS. I'm definitely not qualified to help out here, and I don't really need any of the 5.2 features, but I was wondering whether there's anywhere where I can read up on whether further mac builds are planned? Or in other words: are we hoping for the right person to come along to make new builds, or is there a technical blocker that means that this may be a dead end?

Well, to be honest, it's a bit of all of that. The dev team (unfortunately)
is very small. The versions we provide drop of the KDE CI/CD infrastructure
which is maintained and developed by a completely different (though KDE)
team. The code to support builds for MacOS is available, but it fails along
the way for some MacOS specific reason and thus has been disabled to save
energy and compile resources for others. It requires someone with the
necessary knowledge to figure out and fix. So far, we don't have that
knowledge on the KMyMoney team. 

So to answer your questions: builds are not planned but wanted and we're
hoping for the right person to show up to fix the technical (MacOS specific)
blocker. I would not call it a dead end. Maybe, you have ideas where to
recruit that person or can even help out to find one.

> PS: just sent 10 euro to KDE, since there doesn't seem to be a KMM specific donation page

Many thanks for that. Small things add up.

Thomas

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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