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Bug 328296 - Display Mega Byte (MB) instead of Mebi Byte (MiB)
Display Mega Byte (MB) instead of Mebi Byte (MiB)
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 163834
Product: nautilus-cd-burner
Classification: Deprecated
Component: cd-burner
2.10.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Nautilus CD Burner Maintainers
Nautilus CD Burner Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-01-23 14:03 UTC by Hooman "Messi" Mesgary
Modified: 2008-08-20 16:11 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Hooman "Messi" Mesgary 2006-01-23 14:03:00 UTC 
When burning a cd, nautilus-cd-burner shows the amount of the data that is going
to be written on the cd in MiB format. Users are not quite familiar with MiB.
Even many of them think that MB stands for 2^20.

My suggestions:
* Display the data size in both MB and MiB. e.g. "Data size: 635 MiB (665 MB)"
* Display the data size with MB prefix. e.g. "Data size: 635 MB" (some lack of
precision)
* Display the data size in real MB fomat. e.g. "Data size: 665 MB"

For more information on the usage of MB prefix, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte#Definition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefixes#Binary_prefixes_using_SI_symbols_.28Non-standard_usage_but_common.29
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2006-01-23 14:10:27 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 163834 ***