[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #5378: Update Obsolete units (KB, MB, GB) to new standards (KiB, MiB, GiB)

  • From: "korli" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:07:22 -0000

#5378: Update Obsolete units (KB, MB, GB) to new standards (KiB, MiB, GiB)
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  Reporter:  damoklas        |        Owner:  stippi
      Type:  bug             |       Status:  new
  Priority:  normal          |    Milestone:  R1
 Component:  User Interface  |      Version:  R1/Development
Resolution:                  |     Keywords:
Blocked By:                  |  Has a Patch:  0
  Platform:  All             |     Blocking:
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Comment (by korli):

 Replying to [comment:5 aldeck]:
 > Sorry to comment this late, but i think it would be preferable to change
 things the other way around, that is, keeping the KB, MB notation but use
 power of ten values. So that we are S.I compliant and at the same time use
 more meaningful values for users. Ideally it could be a global setting for
 "data size" formatting just like number formatting or monetary formatting
 so that people can keep "kilobyte era" habits if they really want to.

 This would be an enhancement :) I always thought the gigabyte term was
 misused and meant for users "GiB", we just use the good notation, the
 numbers are the same.

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