Re: Displaying file sizes in powers of 10, rather than 2

[Olaf Frączyk <olaf cbk poznan pl>]

On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 20:26 -0800, John Millikin wrote:
>  *  KDE's Dolphin uses correctly-labelled kibibytes
>  * OS X's Finder uses kilobytes
>  * Nautilus and Windows Explorer use kibibytes, but mislabel them as kilobytes
>   * Except our CD burner, which uses labelled kibibytes
(...)
> 
> Could we please modify nautilus to display file sizes in decimal
> units? I've got the patch prepared already, though have held off on
> registering the bug after the response from the glib team.
Hi,
As you see, all the world (except OS X Finder) uses kibibytes - whenever
you call them "kibibytes" or "kilobytes". It is for many tenths of
years.
Because some weird people started using kilobytes as power of 10 to get
better marketing we have now this whole ugly mess.

As the computers use binary system and almost certainly will do it for
many many years it is easier for everyone to use power of 2.

>From my point of view we should use kibi/mibi and correctly label them.

Regards,

Olaf

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Olaf Frączyk <olaf cbk poznan pl>