Op vrijdag 17 augustus 2018 16:52:32 CEST schreef Ken Heard: > On 2018-08-17 03:27, Geert Janssens wrote: > > Actually as of gnucash 2.6 the preferences are managed via GSettings. On > > linux this means the settings are stored in dconf by default. We had a > > few cases early on where gnucash was installed on systems that didn't > > have dconf installed. In that case GSettings will only store settings > > in-memory and they will be reset each time you restart gnucash. > > > > A few things to check: > > 1. Is dconf running properly on your system ? > > I think so, in that all packages relating to dconf are installed. (This > is my first encounter with dconf.) > Ok.
> > 2. can you edit the gnucash preferences using dconf-editor ? In the editor > > the gnucash preferences are found under /org/gnucash > > Directory ~/.gnucash contains three files and three directories. <snip> Please ignore ~/.gnucash for now. It's not related to the preferences you are trying to tweak. Did you play with dconf-editor ? And what where the results ? > > 3. When you try to alter a preference via gnucash, are there any messages > > in the gnucash trace file [1] ? > > For instance, I want to change the default date format from 'Locale > 31/07/13' to 'ISO 2013-07-31'. I can select the latter from the > drop-down list, but 'Locale 31/07/13' remains as the selected format. > The same thing happens for all other preference options; nothing can be > changed from the default. > > I would expect that the default preferences and the changed preferences > would be in the same file, not in a different file. So the defaults > must be somewhere where gnucash can find them. Where would that > 'somewhere' be, and where would the changes be recorded? > > No messages of any kind appear in the trace file. It has been empty > since I opened gnucash today. > Ok. > > Finally as for the choice of account tree separator, you can choose > > anything you like. Full account names are not file names so there is no > > interference whatsoever between gnucash' interpretation of account names > > and the system's file management. > > True, as long as the tree separator is never used in any account name or > code. Yes, indeed. Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
