Prior to the update to version 3 (ie, the 2.6 branch), all my funds were tracked with decimal values. Now, they're all fractions... and odd ones, at that.
Do I really care that shares went from trading at 45 + 5/6, then went down to 44 + 47/117, and finally traded at 46 + 4/11?
No. No, I don't.
I want the decimal values. They mean more to me, and they're actually how I'm entering my data anyway.
Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to turn this off. Please, how do I get my sanity back?
To follow up in 2019, gnucash version 3.3 and later have fixed the bug discussed in the other answer by Geert Janssens. But you must go to Preferences -> General and select Force Prices to display as decimals. This will cause the prices to be rounded.
Just noticed that in Gnucash 4.2. Awful. Annoying. Not only are the fractions hard to read, they take up twice as much space!
The preference is now Numbers, Date, Time > Force prices to display as decimal. Like Benjamin, I got my sanity back. This should be the default.
This is a bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=794755
Unfortunately nobody has found time to fix it yet...
