Bug 340819

Summary:	KRunner uses incorrect currency conversion rates
Product:	[Plasma] krunner	Reporter:	cap601
Component:	converter	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	abulak, email, kde, me, simonandric5
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian unstable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description cap601 2014-11-10 13:19:00 UTC

When I attempt to use KRunner as a currency converter it gives incorrect rates.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open KRunner
2. Enter a currency conversion, e.g. "1 USD in GBP"

Actual Results:  
0.598369 pounds sterling (GBP)

Expected Results:  
Actual conversion rate should be 0.628956 GBP (according to xe.com).

All the currency pairs I've tried give incorrect results. This is a significant discrepancy and shouldn't be due to different data sources.

Comment 1 cap601 2014-11-10 14:29:27 UTC

Deleting .kde/share/apps/libkunitconversion/currency.xml fixes the issue for now but I'm not sure why it wasn't fetching the latest data when the old data was nearly 5 months old. I think there's still a bug somewhere.

Comment 2 Vishesh Handa 2015-01-08 13:31:17 UTC

Confirmed. This is actually a bug in kunitconversion.

Comment 3 Vishesh Handa 2015-01-21 14:28:29 UTC

*** Bug 343050 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Vishesh Handa 2015-01-27 00:16:43 UTC

*** Bug 343353 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Jiehong 2015-04-09 12:58:55 UTC

According to the documentation, the data is extracted from https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/exchange/eurofxref/html/index.en.html, but the values are simply rubbish.

Duplicate bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345750

Comment 6 Jiehong 2015-04-09 13:09:20 UTC

I confirm this bug with plasma 5.2.2, on Archlinux.

Comment 7 Vishesh Handa 2015-04-09 13:19:26 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 345750 ***