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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Add option to use traditional binary units instead of
From:       "Marcel Partap" <mpartap () gmx ! net>
Date:       2009-07-07 8:35:47
Message-ID: 20090707083547.283010 () gmx ! net
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> NO ONE NEEDS BASE 10 UNITS.

> My patch is to add a hidden option to restore normal units for
> those systems that have to support users who use KB/MB/GB.  Since
> KB/MB/GB means 2^(i*10) (i.e. [KMG]iB) on every other system out
> there, it will have mean the same thing here. This is not "adding"
> anything, this is restoring behavior that was present in KDE 3.5,
> that was present (and is present) in GNOME, that is present in
> Windows, and that is present in Mac OS X.
And it is plain wrong, because kB/MB/GB actually stand for the base 1000 SI units, \
which this fuzz is all about. Missing the 'i' in between, the other systems actually \
got it all wrong. Your patch is about to add a hidden config key to make KDE output \
wrong byte size strings, too, right? Why is the 'i' in "MiB" so distracting to you? \
Nevertheless, easily could add an option to do it like this - it'd be simply wrong \
though.

> I am not adding any GUI options, and I don't intend to add any GUI
> options, and I don't see any reason to add GUI options. Is there a bug
> open where people are asking for decimal units?
Pretty sure i've seen that before. That's why my patch adds one.

> apparently technical working documents and standardization attempts
> from 1999 are more convincing to people than common convention.
Well, there's two technical norms defining unit names and prefixes. IMHO it's not \
wrong to support them both in KDE and give more control about the formatting output. \
That's what my patch at http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/943/diff/ tries to. If those \
concerned please have a look at it.. regards,
marcel.
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