Proposed enhancement: Make item count in groups panel an optional feature that can be turned off

[AEgit]

The current JabRef 5 dev version has huge performance problems with large databases, e.g.:
#5071
#5735

The same database (ca. 20,000 items; several thousands of static groups) opened with JabRef 3.8.2 does not display these performance issues.

I wonder whether some of these performance issues could be solved by a simple workaround: Make it possible to switch off the calculation of the number of items in the groups panel. In version 3.8.2 this was possible and was also suggested to do, when having performance problems. Indeed, I switched it off for my database, since otherwise it would not be possible to work with the database due to performance problems.

However, you shouldn't get rid of the background box surrounding the group item account. This box changes colour according to whether an item selected in the main table is part of a group or not, so this information should be available. In the old JabRef version this was achieved by having the name of a group underlined, which contained a selected item.

I think this rather simple (?) change could alleviate some of the performance problems reported previously. In fact, it already did with the old version 3.8.2, so you would expect to see a similar performance increase in the current dev version.

[Gena928]

Hi Tobiasdiez,

If possible, I would like to work in this issue. Can you assign it to me?

Gennadiy