From kde-core-devel Fri Sep 20 20:43:06 2002 From: Ryan Cumming Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 20:43:06 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: [RFC] SI Units in KDE X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103255464918056 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On September 20, 2002 12:49, Thiago Macieira wrote: > That would be a nice thing, but it could also get very confusing. For > instance, imagine the confusion the use of MB and MiB side by side would > create. And Konqueror reporting one number while ls reports another... 'ls', by default, reports sizes in bytes. If you use the -h switch, it uses "G" to represent GiBs, "M" to represent MiBs, and "K" to represent KiBs, etc. If you use the --si switch, it (correctly) reports units such as "GB", "MB", and "KB". So the only time you see 'ls' claiming something is a certain size in MB, it is already using the SI convention. > And not discussing whether it should be done or not, just imagine the sheer > amount of work it would generate just to find all the places where the > binary calculation is made. It would be a lot easier to change into the > funny-sounding units than to go decimal... I really don't think there would be too many areas that need to be changed outside of KIO and Konqueror. If you're concerned about the amount of work, I offer to do the entire conversion for 3.2. > I for one will be happy on the increase of memory, from 768MB to 805.306MB > :-) Martijn is suggesting that we measure memory sizes in MiBs, as they align themselves nicely to binary boundries. So you'd go from 768MB to 768MiB ;) - -Ryan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9i4hcLGMzRzbJfbQRAi35AKCPS9n0frGathxpbInDyulSFdwucwCfYlM4 BPj4MIn2FAyajzyQfSet8bk= =yvuf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----