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This page is dedicated to discuss issues related to the port to KDE4. The effort is ongoing and it is not considered stable. It is only suitable for early adopters. If you are looking for the stable version, go to the official page of KMyMoney

Available versions

KMyMoney 3.95 has been released on Dec 28th 2009 tarball.

Alternatively, you can get the source from the KDE SVN. (see link below)

Installation

Requirements

KMyMoney depends on KDE SC 4.3. Specifically on kdelibs and kde PIM libs. Additionally, you may want to install other libraries that will provide additional functionality:

  • libofx
  • Aqbanking v4 for Qt4 -- IMPORTANT: It is not compatible with AqBanking for Qt3
  • quote::finance

Please note that KMyMoney cannot be compiled using KDE SC 4.4 (trunk) right now due to an undefined method in a PIM class. We are currently trying to solve the issue with the PIM guys.

Installation steps

Get the source from KDE SVN or the latest tarball from https://sourceforge.net/projects/kmymoney2/files/KMyMoney-KDE4/3.95.0/kmymoney-3.95.0.tar.bz2/download

To install read the README.cmake file in the root folder of the source. The basic steps are the following: 

$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/
$ make
$ make install

(this last step should be executed with admin privileges. Either switch to root or use sudo, or the appropriate steps for your installation)

To execute, either look for KMyMoney on the Office menu, or type kmymoney in a console window.

Localization

If you are installing from SVN source, you need to install your locale files by hand. If you are installing from the tarball provided above, please skip this section.

To localize you will need to download the appropriate kmymoney.po file from http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/l10n-kde4/<country_code>/messages/playground-office/ (replace <country_code> with the correct one for your locale e.g. es would give http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/l10n-kde4/es/messages/playground-office/) and then, either by switching to root or using sudo, do the following:

  • Copy the kmymoney.po file into /usr/share/locale/<country_code>/
  • In that folder run:
  $ msgfmt kmymoney.po -o LC_MESSAGES/kmymoney.mo

  Note: use the msgfmt that comes with your distribution not the one needed for kmymoney2.

Guidelines

This version is only suitable for early adopters. It will behave fairly well, but the application might crash and you may lose some data. Make backups often.

For 3.95 version and later, we use the Bugzilla tracker at bugs.kde.org. Any bugs you find, please report it and assign to product kmymoney4. Also, if you need help write to [email protected].

Development guidelines

As a first step, we are leaving Qt3Support, if possible. There are cases when it is best to port to the corresponding Qt4 classes. Examples of these are the QButtonGroups, KActions, KPageWidget, QTabBar

For now, focus on make it work. Assess whether it will be faster using Qt3Support or a newer class.

The repository to use is the one in KDE SVN. svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/playground/office/kmymoney.


Blocking issues

These are the issues that need to be fixed first before releasing a beta version.

  • Entering a transaction and hitting an account limit will get the application in a loop which ends in a crash
  • Reinvest dividend transaction form never enables the Enter button
  • Enter does not work for transaction enter, only Return does.(not as important as the other, but it's a nag in a main part of the application)
  • Port AqBanking plugin Note: KBanking compiles against at Qt4 AqBanking. Still need to test if it really works (ipwizard)
  • There are a couple of occurrences of Uninitialized variables warnings during the build. We should fix those.
  • Several files are rebuilt if make is executed twice in a row.
  • After the payee completer depletes al possible completions when typing a payee's name the typed text is selected so if the user continues to type all characters entered so far are lost

Areas known to work

I thought that we can put here a list of features that are known to work (after a developer testing):


Area Status Comments
Tips and tricks Working
Home Page Working
Institutions Working
Accounts Working
Ledgers Working
Schedules Working
Categories Working
Payees Working
Investments Working
Reports Working
Charts Working
Budgets Working
Forecast Working
Splash screen Working
Settings Working
Webconnect Working
Plugins Working KBanking plugin needs to be tested: I was able to download statements (2009-12-24)
Database Working Passes unit tests for MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite3. (fvilas)
GPG Working Needs testing

Areas to work on

  • Views
  • Dialogs
  • Widgets

Also, here you have the KrazyEBN report, which reports common issues on the code. Krazy Report

Please include the areas you are working on to avoid overlapping with other developers.

conet

The following are on my TODO list but that does not mean that I don't need any help on them:

  • Check all the KListView classes that save their layout and make sure that works (restoreLayout was called in polish() in the Institutions view and polish() is not called anymore)(done)
  • Check what's up with the transaction form in the ledger(done)
  • Work on the transaction form since I see it as the hardest thing to port and once it is done (with qt3 support) we can go one and work on the following bullet(done)
  • Try to fix various small stuff that don't work yet until a usable application is obtained(done)
  • Check for multiple instances. It was using DCOP, and it has to be migrated to a method suitable with DBus.
  • Port the KBanking plugin to KDE4 and add it the KMyMoney source tree
  • Although the code that takes care of the drawing of the highlighter of the drop target in kmymoneyaccounttreebase.cpp was ported the drop target is not highlighted

asoliverez

I will work on the account selector, probably migrate it to Qt4 widgets, because it does all kinds of weird stuff that can be probably optimized. (fixed by conet) Working on the i18n and documentation issues with KDE-i18n team. Also going through the Krazy report, and fixing issues there.

ipwizard

I will try to keep the strings together and work on coordination for the integration of/with other KDE applications. On the code front maybe setting up the Qt-Designer plugin for the KMyMoney widgets.

  • Getting the GPG encryption to work with either QCA or libkleo Replaced using QGpgME
  • Replace kMyMoneyDateInput with KPIM::KDateEdit Postponed, as KPIM::KDateEdit development headers are not available in some distros
  • Separate the base and constructed widgets into their own libs
  • Provide a designer plugin library with KMyMoney specific widgets

fvilas

  • Convert the dialog allocations on the stack to use QPointer, per EBN point #5.
  • Port the WebPriceQuote object.
  • Port the QIF reader and add test cases for it.
  • Q3Table -> QTableWidget for transaction and register (postponed due to size of task. If anyone wants this, I can send you my patch so far, if not, I'll get back to it at some point.)
  • Q3ButtonGroup -> QButtonGroup port
  • General cleanup of deprecation warnings to quiet the build a bit
  • Q3BoxLayout -> QBoxLayout

Issues

Please report here the issues you find.

  • Libkdchart has been commented out until last minute. Charts won't work until then(asoliverez)
  • Check for multiple instances. It was using DCOP, and it has to be migrated to a method suitable with DBus. (conet)
  • There is a bug in KHTMLPart where you get weird results if you call write() many times. Save it to a QString and call write() once instead. Done (ipwizard)
  • Q3ButtonGroup objects should be migrated to QButtonGroup. The Q3Support class is severely handicapped and there are no issues in porting to the new class.
  • Standard icon names have changed. Check the name of the icon being called if you see a default icon is being displayed.
  • The code that creates the title bar (the one with the blue image) has been commented out since it somehow was not visible and the other widgets got behind in making it impossible to click them with the mouse.(the code has been ported it only needs a good color scheme)
  • The kmymoney.css seems to use the KDE3 styles. That's a bug in KHTML that will be in KDE SC 4.4.

Areas to leave as they are for the moment

libkdchart is an extract from koffice. If we find a bug there, it is best to report it to the kdchart maintainers

The mymoney folder contains the engine. It is covered by the unit tests and they run ok. This is a critical area of the application, so check with Thomas or Alvaro before making a change.

Of course, if you find a critical bug in anywhere on the application, send a mail to the mailing list or report it on bugs.kde.org.

Mailing list

https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmymoney-devel. Use it to discuss issues related to the port to KDE4.

Coordination

Alvaro Soliverez is coordinating the KDE4 effort. You can reach me at asoliverez at gmail.com or on IRC under Hei_ku in the #kmymoney channel. Alternatively, you can contact Thomas Baumgart on the developers list.

People involved

  • mlaurent
  • conet
  • neoclust
  • asoliverez
  • tbaumgart aka ipwizard
  • fvilas
  • tonyb

(Contact the coordinator if you are willing to contribute)

Release schedule

Version 3.95

First beta for KDE4 Released on Dec 28th 2009 Suitable only for early adopters only

Version 3.96

String freeze on Feb 1st 2010 Release on Feb 15th 2010 Suitable only for early adopters only

Version 3.97

String freeze on Mar 15th 2010 Release on Mar 30th 2010 Last beta

Version 3.98

String freeze on Apr 30th 2010 Release on May 15th 2010 First release candidate

After that, move to kdereview

Version 4.5

Release at the same time as KDE SC 4.5. Stable release

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