[Mageia-dev] What is Mageia's policy reagarding filesize display? (units/base 2 vs base 10)

Tue Jun 26 16:26:12 CEST 2012

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Thierry Vignaud
+<thierry.vignaud at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On 26 June 2012 14:57, Christian Lohmaier
+> <lohmaier+mageia at googlemail.com> wrote:
+>> * Would a patch against nautilus that restores base2 behavior be accepted?
+>
+> No.
+
+Why not?
+
+>> If not:
+>> * Do you think it is OK to have commandline tools show different
+>> values from GUI tools?
+
+You did not provide and answer to this one.
+
+>> * Do you think it is OK to display different numeric values than the
+>> rest of the computer world?
+
+You did not provide an answer to this one.
+
+> Are you aware KiB != Kb ?
+
+Obviously I am. That's why I started the thread in the first place.
+And that is why I wrote *numeric* values explicitly. It shows
+"different numbers", the user doesn't pay so much attention to the
+units themselves, only "k vs M vs G" - what matters is that a file
+that has 240MB on Windows now is 252MB in nautilus.
+Or that file he copied over the network from linux to his windows
+computer now suddenly is 14 MB smaller.
+
+Irrespective of that windows uses wrong units, that is not what the
+user cares about, the user knows that there is a difference between MB
+and KB. Whether the user is aware that windows uses 1024*1024 for "M"
+as supposed to SI-style multiplier is irrelevant.
+You don't expect users to compare the sizes in raw bytes, do you?
+
+> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobit
+> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiB
+
+Thanks for clearly demonstrating that you did not bother trying to
+understand the topic at hand.
+
+ciao
+Christian
+