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

Tue Jun 26 22:36:09 CEST 2012

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 04:18:56PM +0200, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
+> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl> wrote:
+> > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 02:57:16PM +0200, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
+> >> Apparently this did originate from ubuntu with their unit policy
+> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy which is rather flawed in my
+> >> opinion.
+> >
+> > FWIW, I'm not interested in making such changes. I prefer base 2, but
+> > don't see the point of making glib/gtk+ behave differently across
+> > distributions.
+> 
+> It is not making glib/gtk behave differently, it is just requesting
+> differently processed string from glib.
+
+glib/gtk+/nautilus/transmission (it shows me base 10)
+
+Note that Windows is inconsistent. It sometimes shows base 10, sometimes
+base 2. Furthermore, the only reason they left it as base 2 was because
+other OSes did (was once in a MSDN blog). Suggesting Windows as
+comparison is pretty arbitrary.
+
+In any case, my main point is that I don't see why development should be
+done within a distribution. E.g. you're advocating changing this, but
+this is basically repeating a discussion that has been held upstream
+various times.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+
+PS: Above list of programs is incomplete; there are more which show base
+10.
+