[Mageia-dev] What is Mageia's policy reagarding filesize display? (units/base 2 vs base 10)

Thierry Vignaud thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 15:51:22 CEST 2012


On 26 June 2012 14:57, Christian Lohmaier
<lohmaier+mageia at googlemail.com> wrote:
> * Would a patch against nautilus that restores base2 behavior be accepted?

No.

> If not:
> * Do you think it is OK to have commandline tools show different
> values from GUI tools?
> * Do you think it is OK to display different numeric values than the
> rest of the computer world?

Are you aware KiB != Kb ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiB


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