For me, the most annoying is the Deep Connections Gramplet, which needs multiple minutes for searches that take only 1 or 2 seconds on Geneanet. The user’s problem can be handled with Gramps, and probably better than with PAF, although its advanced filters are quite good, and more interactive than …

To follow up on the performance of the Deep Connections Gramplet, which has annoyed me for years, I need to add that I did some analysis of the code, which has a few errors that cause it to process the same person multiple times, but after correcting those, it’s still slow. And now that I know that…

[image] ennoborg: For me, the most annoying is the Deep Connections Gramplet, which needs multiple minutes for searches that take only 1 or 2 seconds on Geneanet. The user’s problem can be handled with Gramps, and probably better than with PAF, although its advanced filters are quite good, and …

[image] emyoulation: I wonder if the Deep Connections feature would be more appropriate as a Quick Report instead of as a Gramplet? I’d be glad to revisit the implementation. I wrote that more than 15 years ago. A lot has changed, including me :slight_smile:

[image] dsblank: I’d be glad to revisit the implementation. Thanks for that offer. It would wonderful to have it updated! I use Deep Connections output frequently in eMail conversations. It allows quick copy’n’paste of the outline of a relationship to a distant cousin. (Although since it con…

[image] emyoulation: I wonder if the Deep Connections feature would be more appropriate as a Quick Report instead of as a Gramplet? Meh. I wouldn’t like it to change too much. I use it regularly and it would bore me.

If you do revisit it, I’d like to see an improvement in finding multiple relationships. All too often, if I look for additional relationships, all I get is a minor variation using a different sibling at some point in the relationship or something similar. In my research I have followed a lot of br…

I use Deep Connections frequently. I’d be grateful if the most recent common ancester were included in the connection path.

For those interested in trying an updated DeepConnectionsGramplet, the source code is here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gramps-project/addons-source/refs/heads/maintenance/gramps60/DeepConnectionsGramplet/DeepConnectionsGramplet.py You can simply overwrite your existing one. This version do…

I didnt see a PR for this change. Usually I let a PR sit in the queue for a few days to get comments before merging / publishing. You dont need to update the version in the gpr file as this is done as part of the publish process. I published this change just now.

Thank you! I’ll make a PR next time.

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I’d be glad to revisit the implementation. I wrote that more than 15 years ago. A lot has changed, including me

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