gc 2.6.4 Accounts Tab Performance/Lag/Slowness

[Chris Good]

Hi Colin,

Sorry, Your name was in the subject line as I replied to your email because 
the full mail from the OP wasn't in my daily gnucash digest and I forgot to 
remove your name.

Regards, Chris Good

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colin Law [mailto:clanlaw at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, 1 November 2014 8:17 PM
> To: Chris Good
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: gc 2.6.4 Accounts Tab Performance/Lag/Slowness (Colin Law)
>
> On 1 November 2014 06:23, Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au>
> wrote:
> >> > On 30 October 2014 21:07, Ian K <ik522000 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Interesting your spec includes a decent video card - my i7 machine
> >> >> uses onboard graphics and I was wondering whether a video card
> >> >> might
> >> help...
> >> >> In answer to your question I assume people are suffering with it -
> >> >> or am I wrong? Are there Windows users out there using 2.6.x
> >> >> without these
> >> issues?
> >
> > This is a known issue, see
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722903
> >
> > In summary, apparently, it cannot be fixed until some future
> > development cycle.
> >
> > I have found (2.6.2) it is much better if you wiggle your mouse
> > pointer around while waiting for screen updates in accounts window.
> > Your milage may vary.
> >
> > Regardless of that, unless I missed something, the developers have
> > said many times that we should not use 2.6.4 on Windows due to serious
> problems.
> > We should use 2.6.3 on Windows, until they advise a workable 2.6.4 is
> > available.
>
> Not sure why I am referenced in the subject line.  I use Ubuntu and have
> experienced no display update issues with an i5 processor on Intel 3000
> graphics.  For anyone with problems I suggest moving to Ubuntu unless they
> absolutely cannot manage without Windows.  It is great to feel that one is
> back in control of one's machine after changing.
>
> Colin
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