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Bug 344296 - Nautilus should use binary prefix multipliers to display file sizes
Nautilus should use binary prefix multipliers to display file sizes
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 127175
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: File operations
2.14.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-06-08 15:51 UTC by Raphael Bosshard
Modified: 2008-09-26 15:18 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement

Attachments
Little patch that changes the ambiguous "kB", "MB", "GB" to the more specific "KiB", "MiB" and "GiB" (887 bytes, patch)
2006-06-09 17:05 UTC, Raphael Bosshard 		none Details | Review
Update of the previous patch, changes constant names also (1.77 KB, patch)
2006-06-13 14:25 UTC, Raphael Bosshard 		none Details | Review

Description Raphael Bosshard 2006-06-08 15:51:24 UTC 
The use of base-10 prefix multipliers (kilo, mega, giga) is misleading with growing filesizes. Binary prefix multipliers (kibi, mebi, gibi) should be used instead.
Comment 1 Elijah Newren 2006-06-08 16:20:33 UTC 
Mentioned in comments 5 and 6 of bug 94691, as well as being touched upon in bug 124731 (which was marked as a dupe of bug 94691).
Comment 2 Raphael Bosshard 2006-06-09 17:05:53 UTC 
Created attachment 67066 [details] [review]
Little patch that changes the ambiguous "kB", "MB", "GB" to the more specific "KiB", "MiB" and "GiB"
Comment 3 Raphael Bosshard 2006-06-13 14:25:43 UTC 
Created attachment 67262 [details] [review]
Update of the previous patch, changes constant names also
Comment 4 Alexander Larsson 2006-06-17 09:01:07 UTC 
This is really an old discussion, marking as duplicate.

If you still want to discuss this we would need a gnome-wide switch, including updating the gnome docs styleguide. Such a discussion is better had in desktop-devel-list. (FWIW, I would be against such a switch, but would follow the decision if it was taken.)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127175 ***