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<H1>[Mageia-dev] What is Mageia's policy reagarding filesize display? (units/base 2 vs base 10)</H1>
<B>Christian Lohmaier</B>
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<I>Tue Jun 26 16:18:56 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>Hi Olav, *,
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Olav Vitters <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">olav at vitters.nl</A>> wrote:
><i> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 02:57:16PM +0200, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
</I>>><i> Apparently this did originate from ubuntu with their unit policy
</I>>><i> <A HREF="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy</A> which is rather flawed in my
</I>>><i> opinion.
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</I>><i> FWIW, I'm not interested in making such changes. I prefer base 2, but
</I>><i> don't see the point of making glib/gtk+ behave differently across
</I>><i> distributions.
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It is not making glib/gtk behave differently, it is just requesting
differently processed string from glib.
glib already provides functions / corresponding flags to switch
between the two bases.
A patch would be passing G_FORMAT_SIZE_IEC_UNITS to the function call.
ciao
Christian
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