facing a few discrepancies against what i was used to see in version 5.1.3. in reports
Moreover i have a few general questions.
I read the release notes KMyMoney 5.2.0 released | KMyMoney and found no hint regarding my points below.
If you mean i should open specific tickets (bug or wishes) for given points, please let me know.
– 1. Discrepancies
in transactions reports, the column “Price” appeared in all reports
i know i can hide the column in the report parameters, but i am still curious on how this column appeared through the software version upgrade…
In a few other transaction reports, these three columns where displayed: Num, Tag, Price, although they were not displayed in the reports saved and used in version 5.1.3
In the ledger, i discover a new feature while right-clicking on a single transaction, namely show transaction details:
Does it mean that a category (here carburant) is also technically an account, as the bank account (here current account) already is?
Are the values P000180, A000001, A000022 coming from the kmymoney database to refer to respectively “Jet Tankstellen”, “current account” and “carburant” ?
why is the first column header named “split” even if there is no split transaction here, but solely a double-entry booking?
what does “BankID” means? in the example it has value A000001-2025-07-15-46fe4a0-1
2. GENERAL QUESTIONS
how does the favicon function works exactly? i submit an URL of the bank, and for six banks, the logo is displayed properly, for two others not, see screenshot:
bank #1 shows a blank logo (website entered is Navigateur obsolète - Crédit Mutuel, favicon’s URL stays empty)
bank #2 shows the kmymoney placeholder logo (website entered is https://businesstravelportal.airplus.com/, favicon’s URL stays empty)
I am referring to this setting: “Website” of an Institution.
Should I enter something specific in the favicon URL as well, for the cases where the bank website link is “not enough”?
If yes, which kind of URL are needed? One of those URLs included in the source code of website of bank #1 ? <!-- favicons 2019 --> <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="[https://cdnsi.e-i.com/INGR/sd/cm_2015/53.122.2/fr/images/std/favicons/apple-touch-icon.png](view-source:https://cdnsi.e-i.com/INGR/sd/cm_2015/53.122.2/fr/images/std/favicons/apple-touch-icon.png)"> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="[https://cdnsi.e-i.com/INGR/sd/cm_2015/53.122.2/fr/images/std/favicons/favicon-32x32.png](view-source:https://cdnsi.e-i.com/INGR/sd/cm_2015/53.122.2/fr/images/std/favicons/favicon-32x32.png)"> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="[https://cdnsi.e-i.com/INGR/sd/cm_2015/53.122.2/fr/images/std/favicons/favicon-16x16.png](view-source:https://cdnsi.e-i.com/INGR/sd/cm_2015/53.122.2/fr/images/std/favicons/favicon-16x16.png)"> <link rel="manifest" href="[https://cdnsi.e-i.com/INGR/sd/cm_2015/53.122.2/fr/images/std/favicons/site.webmanifest](view-source:https://cdnsi.e-i.com/INGR/sd/cm_2015/53.122.2/fr/images/std/favicons/site.webmanifest)"> <link rel="mask-icon" href="[https://cdnsi.e-i.com/INGR/sd/cm_2015/53.122.2/fr/images/std/favicons/safari-pinned-tab.svg](view-source:https://cdnsi.e-i.com/INGR/sd/cm_2015/53.122.2/fr/images/std/favicons/safari-pinned-tab.svg)" color="#e2001a">
print function: is it possible to set a few more things that this?
A) the current print settings doesn’t allow to set up this kind of settings:
center on page
center on page (vertically)
center on page (horizontally)
scaling options:
no scaling
fit on one page (shrink the printout so that it fits on one page)
Fit width (shrink the printout so that it is one page wide)
Fit height (shrink the printout so that it is one page high)
B) ability to save permanently the print settings
this means, if i set up different margins values and close the software afterwards, they stay the same when i start the software again, instead of coming back to the standard of 3,53mm for each of the four margins.
1.1 it is technically required but I don’t know the details.
1.2 a) Yes, it was not available in 5.1.3
1.2 b) Yes, a category is just a synonym for an income or expense account
1.3 c) Yes
1.3 d) Each double-entry booking consists of two splits (therefore double entry)
1.4 e) The BankID is an identifier used to detect duplicates in downloads. Its value is derived from the content of the split.
2.1 bank #1) I don’t know why it is empty. Could be that an empty favicon is supplied
2.1 bank #2) No favicon found (maybe, that bank needs a special URL d’émoticône)
2.1 Which URL needs to be used depends on the bank. We cannot provide support for that.
2.2 The print dialog/function is a generic KDE widget/feature not KMyMoney specific. I don’t know, if those settings can be preserved by and for a specific application.
Thank you for these information and confirmations.
I understand you cannot provide specific support.
My hope was, that Kmymoney handles the step “take a favicon out of a bank’s website”, and that i could know what kmymoney is technically looking for there, maybe a specific filename (example: favicon.png) or a specific file extension (example: .ico) and that i could find the proper URL (which points to such a file name or extension) on my own.
As a positive working example, this favicon is shown in kmymoney: https://banking.postbank.de/favicon.ico
If you confirm this is the case (that kmymoney requires a file having the .ico extension, how could this information be made available in the user manual?
ok, this regards my question B) ability to save permanently the print settings.
What do you mean regarding A)?:
A) the current print settings doesn’t allow to set up this kind of settings:
center on page
center on page (vertically)
center on page (horizontally)
scaling options:
no scaling
Fit on one page (shrink the printout so that it fits on one page)
Fit width (shrink the printout so that it is one page wide)
Fit height (shrink the printout so that it is one page high)
Is this also something KDE generic and independant from Kmymoney? If yes, what is the name of the corresponding KDE system or application (or contact partner) where i could ask more about the print settings?
The easiest way would be to create a Merge Request against the manual. You could also provide the text and send it to kmymoney-devel@kde.org (preferrably as a patch to the original version - but if this too technical the text alone would do also together with an explanation where to drop it).
Actually not KDE but Qt generic. It is documented on this page.
Okay.
I have an account to connect to https://invent.kde.org so i could try the merge request.
However i never did that until now. Is there some Anleitung anywhere for this?
The target documentation page to be changed is https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kmymoney/kmymoney/details.institutions.html#details.institutions.new
This is one screenshot and one paragraph, nothing more.
i cannot see the page “Chapter 5. Institutions”. Can i guess it? Or is there an easy logic to find it?
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all right. So if i wish Kmymoney to improve the print settings, i must first ask the improvement to Qt development people. How would i do this? Are they on discuss.kde.org ? Or where are they?
Yes, see here. Since you do have a KDE invent dev account, you may skip the part about forking the project. Please make sure in this case though, that you name your branches
work/<your-invent-user-name>/<feature-desc>
Unfortunately, the web-site still shows the old documentation. So maybe, this looks already different from what we see on the web.
Once you cloned the project onto your local drive, you will find those files in the doc/ subdirectory of the project.
Hope that helps. If anything is unclear simply ask.
I think I am at fault here - the 5.2 docs currently only exist in the 5.2 branch. I have not yet pushed them to master. I will look again at doing this, but I’m worried about messing it up, so may ask for another set of eyes to be sure I’ve got it set up correctly before pushing.