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<H1>[Mageia-dev] What is Mageia's policy reagarding filesize display? (units/base 2 vs base 10)</H1>
<B>Olav Vitters</B>
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<I>Tue Jun 26 22:36:09 CEST 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 04:18:56PM +0200, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
><i> 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>><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.
</I>><i> >
</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.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It is not making glib/gtk behave differently, it is just requesting
</I>><i> differently processed string from glib.
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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.
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Regards,
Olav
PS: Above list of programs is incomplete; there are more which show base
10.
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