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On Monday 06 July 2009 17:01:02 Gary Greene wrote:
> On 7/6/09 4:41 PM, "Sven Burmeister" <sven.burmeister@gmx.net> wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 1. Juli 2009 17:15:01 schrieb Daniel Winter:
> >> 2009/7/1 Josh Berry <des@condordes.net>:
> >>> IMO there is no excuse for having promulgated this DOS-era mistake
> >>> (shortcut?) for as long as we have.  I understand the technical
> >>> reasons for using binary units internally, but presenting them as if
> >>> they were SI units has only contributed to the type of confusion that
> >>> spawned this thread.
> >>
> >> Another addition:
> >>
> >> We (KDE) are not the only one who made the transition to correct use of
> >> units.
> >>
> >> There are quite a few other FOSS applications (GUI as CLI tools) which
> >> are showing Ki/Mi and so on.
> >
> > Indeed. The other day I noticed that e.g. zypper also shows them like
> > that. So KDE is in the starter group of adopting the correct units and
> > not isolated.
> >
> > Sven
> >
> >>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to
> >>> unsubscribe <<
>
> That may be the case, but those on Windows and Mac will see TWO SETS OF
> UNITS! This becomes a problem for them since end users will see from
> Explorer or Finder KB as the unit with base 2 units and only in KDE
> applications KiB. The response from end users isn't going to be "Oh, I'll
> look that up on the net" but rather, "These guys don't know what normal
> units are for computers."
>
> I hate to say it, but until the proprietary OS vendors move over, this
> shouldn't be the default in KDE since our target audience isn't the ones =
in
> the know, but rather the ones that will question us for what they perceive
> as incorrect behaviour. Remember, soup boxes don't sell software,
> pragmatism does.
And why would they _want_ to. It's the proprietary systems (hard=20
disk vendors, OS vendors) who started this mess. They aren't going to fix i=
t if=20
(and since) it helps the disk vendors make money.


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