change in reports?

[Jack]

On 2017.12.07 16:06, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> Am 07.12.2017 um 10:35 schrieb Thomas Baumgart:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mittwoch, 6. Dezember 2017 19:22:07 CET Jack wrote:
> >
> >> On 2017.12.06 18:06, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> >>> Am 06.12.2017 um 23:44 schrieb Jack:
> >>>> This is a version compiled from the 4.8.1 git tag.
> >>> Is there anything different with the appended test case, which  
> does
> >>> not
> >>> show the issue with a build from 4.8 branch in the "Custom Tax
> >>> Report" ?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Ralf
> >> I also just noticed something else - on the home page, negative  
> values
> >> are shown in red in parentheses in my 4.8 but with a minus sign in  
> git
> >> master.  So - this has nothing to do with reports, and is related  
> to
> >> how negative numbers get formatted for display.  If I am correct  
> that
> >> it is due to some changed KDE4 setting, then I don't think it is  
> worth
> >> any effort here, since KMM is the only remaining KDE4 application I
> >> use, and I can use a pre-5.0 version in any situation where it  
> matters.
> > That for sure goes back to the (global) KDE setting then. Parens  
> around
> > numbers was one of the possibilities in KDE4. In KF5 this setting  
> does not
> > exist (anymore) and only the minus sign in front of the numbers is  
> used to
> > represent negative values.
> The related setting is in ~/-kde4/share/config/kdeglobals
> 
> [Locale]
> NegativeMonetarySignPosition=x
> 
> A value of 4 represents the parenthesis. Set it to 0 or remove the
> attribute to restore the result.
Mine only has:
[Locale]
Country=us
DateFormatShort=%Y-%m-%d
Language=en_US

and adding
NegativeMonetarySignPosition=0

has no effect - but I won't be able to actually restart KDE for a while  
- I've got a long compile going on and don't want to interrupt it.
I'll report back when I can restart.

Jack