[GNC] Cannot change preferences

[Geert Janssens]

Op vrijdag 17 augustus 2018 18:41:13 CEST schreef Ken Heard:
> On 2018-08-17 11:28, Geert Janssens wrote:
> 
> <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 ?
> 
> 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?
> 
> <snip again>

Hi Ken,

Thanks for the feedback. My request to try with dconf-editor was not meant as 
a workaround, but rather to determine if values can be changed at all.

>From your explanation I still can't infer this exactly, but I readily admit my 
instructions were very vague.

Can you try one more experiment:
- Make sure you don't have gnucash running
- Start dconf-editor
- Change /org/gnucash/general/date-format to 1 (just using your example here, 
any preference change is fine for this test)
- Be sure to click on the apply button that pops up
- Quit dconf-editor and start it again
- Navigate to /org/gnucash/general/date-format

=> What is it set to now ?

Regards,

Geert