[GNC] Cannot change preferences

[Ken Heard]

On 2018-08-17 11:28, Geert Janssens wrote:

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> 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 ?

After some research I opened dconf-editor and found 
/org/gnucash/general/date-format and found that the default format is 
value 4, whatever value 4 is.  I turned off the default format and 
selected value 1 instead of 4 and then closed dconf-editor.

I then opened gnucash preferences again and noted that the date format 
is still 31/07/13. I next reopened dconf-editor only to discover that 
the date default value is still 4; so it would appear that dconf-editor 
cannot be used to change gnucash preferences.

I hope you know the significance of the foregoing, because I don't.  How 
can I use dconf-editor to select preferences for gnucash if the values 
for each number are not explained?

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Regards, Ken