Calc needs easy method to reset to defaults

Bug #369904 reported by Dave
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gcalctool (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gcalctool

Reference: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcalctool/+question/69263

(This would be more of an enhancement than a bug)

I am a moderately frequent user of gcalctool, and I am a SW programmer, so I like to use the Bit Editor feature and related.

Somehow, gcalctool got in a state where the accuracy was set to 0.

I could not figure out why 3/2 = 2 !!! Rather, I figured I knew what was happening, but I didn't know how it got to that state or how to clear it.

I eventually found the "Acc" pulldown and fixed the problem. But that is not intuitive, IMHO.

Especially since that pulldown is not available in any mode except Scientific.

I think the easiest thing for most users would be a "reset to defaults" option that would get everything back to normal.

Someone mentioned command line methods to reset gcalctool, but those are even less intuitive.

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Dave (daves73+launchpad) wrote :

I'm closing this bug, since the root problem seems to have been addressed in gcalctool included with Ubuntu 9.04.

Now, the Accuracy only seems to persist while in Scientific mode. If the user switches to any other mode, the accuracy is reset to 9 places.

Changed in gcalctool (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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