Bug 340819 - KRunner uses incorrect currency conversion rates
Summary: KRunner uses incorrect currency conversion rates
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 345750
Alias: None
Product: krunner
Classification: Plasma
Component: converter (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian unstable Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Keywords:
: 343050 343353 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2014-11-10 13:19 UTC by cap601
Modified: 2015-04-09 13:19 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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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 ***