Change date display to month/day/year

Maybe this helps. I don't know because I don't know the package.

1: Click Settings
2: Click Configure KMyMoney ...
3: Choose the tab Online quotes

On the end of this tab is the field Date Format. Change the entries to %m %d %y.

Hope it helps.
Peter

KMyMoney uses the KDE settings. You have to use kcontrol, or systemsettings to change the KDE date format to the one you want.

I guess you are using Gnome, right?

Yes in 8.10 I believe I am using Gnome.

I don't like to sound dumb.. But <g>

I installed kcontrol after reading a earlyer thread but cannot find where to open it. I also cannot find "systemsettings"

I tried changing the date as per peter's instructions but this did not help. (%m %d %y)

Thanks, Bob.

You are not dumb. Peter's instructions referred to something different.

Try starting kcontrol from the terminal.
Open a terminal and type: kcontrol

That should, though if that is the version for KDE4, I don't think it will do it.
I will look for other ways.

You are right that did not start the utility.

What error did you get when trying to start kcontrol?

Copy + paste here, please

bob@ubuntu:~$ kcontrol
bash: kcontrol: command not found
bob@ubuntu:~$

Although in Synaptic it indicates that kcontrol-autostart version 0.5-Oubuntu2 is installed.

Thanks, Bob.

That's because kcontrol-autostart is not the right package.
Try to run systemsettings. In the terminal type: systemsettings

Also, if it starts but it is gray, then maybe you have to install the package kdeartwork.

Sorry about all this. I just don't know why kcontrol has not been packaged in Intrepid. This migration to KDE4 has been rather painful, I guess.

Thanks, That did the trick! What a road though. <g>

Suppose I wanted to remove it and all of its packages. What command would I run?

Bob.

You can do that from Synaptic, or from the terminal.
Just type:

sudo apt-get remove <package name>

For example:

sudo apt-get remove systemsettings kcontrol-autostart kdeartwork

That will uninstall the 3 packages.

Thanks to everyone for their help and understanding!

Bob.