Gnome calculator pings the International Monetary Fund website

16 points by programd 2 months ago · 5 comments

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bawolff 2 months ago

App showing currency exchange has to look up currency rates. News at 11.

yjftsjthsd-h 2 months ago

I would prefer it to be opt-in
e2le 2 months ago

Not too long ago, Gnome calculator would freeze and crash when it tried to download currency conversion data. It would make such requests on each startup, eventually it was fixed in Ubuntu LTS but was broken for quite some time.

anthk 2 months ago

So will qalc from libqalculate.

antisol 2 months ago

Wow, gnome defaulting to doing something dumb, who woulda thunk it.

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