New user here, on Unity/Ubuntu 13.10.
Very happy with Skrooge so far, but one thing that bothers me is that all "amount" columns are formatted as "US$ 12345.67" and date fields as "MM/DD/YY" even though my system has other regional settings, and even though my accounts are set up to use the EUR currency.

Is Skrooge ignoring my regional settings because it's a KDE program running in Ubuntu/Unity? I'd love to get this behavior fixed, but the solution is hopefully not "install KDE"

Hi,

Skrooge uses the KDE settings.
So, you have to set them.
To do that, run "systemsettings" from a console.

For more information: http://userbase.kde.org/System_Settings

smankowski wrote:Skrooge uses the KDE settings. [...] run "systemsettings" from a console.

Thank you! I'm not at my home machine right now, so I'll ask:
Is this not the regular Ubuntu system settings, but a separate KDE system settings?
If so, is that even installed on a stock Ubuntu, or do I need to install (some part of) KDE first?

Note that the regular Ubuntu system settings are already set to my liking, but Skrooge doesn't recognize those.
I found a notification in Skrooge's Dashboard that the default currency wasn't set, so I clicked on the notification and chose "EUR" -- now all "amount" columns look fine, but the date is still American so that's what I'm still looking to adjust.

The System Settings being referred to here is the KDE one - which is different to the Ubuntu one.
The appropriate application should also be known as "KDE System Settings" in the Unity menu, if it is installed.

If you don't want to install anything, try running "kcmshell4 language" - which will allow you to set the various formats KDE uses.

smankowski wrote:Skrooge uses the KDE settings. [...] run "systemsettings" from a console.

I tried this but Ubuntu said it wasn't installed - so I installed it and ran it again. Now it launched and said that no settings were available (I didn't catch the exact wording) so "there is nothing to display" and the window closed itself again.

bcooksley wrote:If you don't want to install anything, try running "kcmshell4 language"

This worked! On first run, it spent a while loading its data and then I could edit the regional settings -- and now Skrooge looks as expected! Curiously, when I run "systemsettings" again now, it does show me a complete control panel. I assume that the 'loading' done by "kcmshell4 language" did the trick.

Thank you for helping resolve this!