I thought I’d describe the status of work on JSON and speeding Gramps’ filters up. None of these steps have been incorporated into the code yet and are still being reviewed. The steps so far: Convert internal database format to JSON, an expressive format - under review Create a method for develope…

Thank you for looking at these internals of gramps. I hope there is someone who could speed up the way screens are loaded when opened. One that bugs me every day is the loading of all the source/citations when the window is opened. Case: new event is created, new citation added. Problem: When you…

@Davesellers , I feel your pain. In fact, this was the first thing I looked at earlier this year to try to speed up Gramps. But this is almost impossible to fix with the current architecture. Why? Because the full objects are needed (in many cases) in order to sort them. You can’t load just a page un…

Kari created an experimental Recent Items library addon. It adds a small (6 item) table at the top of the object selector dialog. This addon does not reduce the re-populate latency for the dialog. But it does dramatically reduce the navigation time when repeatedly selecting the same Citation or Pla…

I don’t think this would help me much. I use the clipboard as much as possible. However I haven’t found a way to use it when adding citations because they are so diverse. Instead of all the sources and citations being loaded on opening the window, why not just the sources (for me this is about 200)…

I guess I should say in my professional life I was use to working with sql data and with indexed tables, and gramps is not there yet. :weary:

It isn’t exactly that. A lot of code has been written in order to be able to sort by complicated issues. Take for example names. How do you sort a name? There are many issues, like whether you have prefixes, suffixes, and name preference types. Does “von Trapp” appear in the T’s or the V’s. Many peo…

It is clear that ‘making Gramps faster’ is also about optimizing code, but I don’t find it sluggish at all (12000 persons in the DB). However, that is only one part - the ease of practical use matters a lot. May I make two suggestions, that would speed up Gramps significantly, at least for me: Red…

[image] MarkusB: but I don’t find it sluggish at all (12000 persons in the DB) you will find it sluggish, but a later :wink: [image] MarkusB: Reduce the obscene amount of clicking for simple standard actions: try changing the birth year of a person: 7 (!) clicks needed to return to peop…

[image] MarkusB: but I don’t find it sluggish at all (12000 persons in the DB) Yep, you’re in the “sweet spot” where you have quite a bit of data, but not too large. There will be some filters for you that are still slower than they need to be. If you really wish to have Gramps developers ad…

[image] MarkusB: changing the birth year of a person: 7 (!) clicks needed to return to people view, It is actually much more than 7 clicks because, of course, the researcher would need to record the evidence supporting the revised date of birth. Honestly, if Gramps had a setting that prompte…

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