5.1.3 is better than 5.2.1

[Philippe Debrabant]

OK, I found the build environment on your wiki 
<https://invent.kde.org/office/kmymoney/-/wikis/Build-environment> 🙂. I 
will take a look on it.


Le 03/11/2025 à 09:06, Philippe Debrabant via KMyMoney a écrit :
> Hi Jack and Thomas,
>
> Thank you for your answers. I'm a very long time user of KMyMoney and 
> I like very much the software.
>
> I don't understand why this application is not updated regularly in my 
> distro (LMDE), but it's another question...
>
> I understand that your future work concerns the 5.2 version only and I 
> hope that the side effects of the important updates will be corrected 
> soon. I'll be glad to help you to debug some incidents. Do you have 
> any tutorial or procedure to configure the development environment on 
> a Linux workstation ?
>
> I will tried the AppImage to see if the behavior is different than the 
> flatpak package, but I agree with you Thomas, I don't think that I 
> will see any difference in speed.
>
> My best regards,
>
> Philippe
>
> Le 02/11/2025 à 11:41, Thomas Baumgart via KMyMoney a écrit :
>> Please see my comments inline below.
>>
>> On Samstag, 1. November 2025 19:18:05 CET Jack via KMyMoney wrote:
>>
>>> On 2025.10.31 09:50, Philippe Debrabant via KMyMoney wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I also reverted to version 5.1.3 after testing 5.2.1 (Flatpak
>>>> package).
>>>>
>>>> 5.1.3 is:
>>>>
>>>> - much, much faster
>>>> - much more responsive: I reconciled an account with 5.2.1, and after
>>>> pressing the "finish" button, the process took almost a minute,
>>>> whereas with 5.1.3 it's instantaneous.
>>>> - I searched for a transaction by typing a keyword; a list appeared,
>>>> but it was impossible to view the transaction description, and
>>>> double-clicking on a transaction didn't open it in the Ledger.
>>>>
>>>> And what about the usability:
>>>>
>>>> - The placement of the button for a new transaction at the top of the
>>>> screen is poorly chosen. The previous location is preferable.
>>>> - The dialog box for entering a transaction is too complex; entering
>>>> a transaction takes longer.
>>>>
>>>> In short, I'm going back to the previous version until something
>>>> better comes along.
>>>>
>>>> After waiting so long for improvements, I must admit I'm very
>>>> disappointed with the result.
>>>>
>>>> Philippe
>>> Philippe,
>>>
>>> In terms of speed, although I don't know exactly how much it matters, I
>>> assume you are comparing a natively compiled application (5.1.3) to a
>>> containerized on (5.2.1 Flatpak.)  You might try the Appimage to see if
>>> it is any faster than the Flatpak.
>> I have never played with Flatpaks, but I would be astonished if it makes
>> a big difference in speed.
>>
>>> In addition, at least some of that speed difference is due to the new
>>> version doing more behind the scenes, in terms of confirming validity
>>> of the data (especially during imports.)  I agree that the finish part
>>> of a reconciliation is slower than previously, but I don't find the
>>> difference that much.
>> Triggered by Philippe's report I spent some time and investigated 
>> load times
>> again. I noticed a bottleneck that shows even more, the more accounts 
>> you
>> have that are not assigned to an institution. Fortunately, that was easy
>> to fix.
>>
>>> When you talk about your problem searching for a transaction, is this
>>> in the search/status field you get by typing Ctl-F, or using the
>>> Transaction Search dialog?  You said you got a list, but in the former,
>>> the ledger is simply filtered to show transactions which match the
>>> search, so the information displayed about each transaction is whatever
>>> is normally shown in the ledger.
>> It looks like another Qt6 based problem. I was able to duplicate it 
>> using
>> a Qt6 version. On Qt5 it works as expected.
>>
>>> In the latter, I am not aware that
>>> result list is any different in 5.2.1 compared to 5.1.3,  For me, I do
>>> see the full details of each transaction, and double clicking does take
>>> me to the transaction in the ledger.  I do not know if any of your
>>> issues are related to using the Flatpak version, which I have not yet
>>> tried.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure which button you mean regarding entering a new
>>> transaction, but Ctl-Ins or clicking in the bottom row of the ledger
>>> both seem reasonably fast and accessible to me.
>>>
>>> You are obviously welcome to continue using 5.1.3, but understand, it
>>> is no longer supported, meaning that even if you do find a real bug,
>>> which is not already fixed in a newer version, it will only be fixed in
>>> 5.2.something.
>>>
>>> Hopefully you will be happier either with an Appimage or a disto
>>> packaged version (I know this depends on your distro.)
>>>
>>> Jack
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