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[Derek Atkins]

Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

> Op maandag 6 februari 2012 08:36:18 schreef Alain Cageda:
>> Great! Working perfectly now. Even better than I expected (this includes the
>> date format wigth dots rather than slash and the decimal *point* rather
>> than a comma). Thanks a lot!!
>> 
> I'm glad this worked out for you. Just one small note: if you install a new 
> version of GnuCash in the future, you will likely have to make this change 
> again. The environment file is overwritten during updates.
>
> That's one minor inconvenience with the current settings system in GnuCash.

I think we should create a $HOME/.gnucash/environment file that
overrides settings in the system/environment file.  This way a user can
override the env w/o sysadmin privs, and it wont get overwritten on
update.

> Geert

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-derek

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