From opensuse Tue Jul 07 06:07:29 2009 From: "David C. Rankin" Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:07:29 +0000 To: opensuse Subject: Re: [opensuse] How to configure konqueror to show KB and MB instead of KiB and MiB?? Message-Id: <200907070107.29353.drankinatty () suddenlinkmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=opensuse&m=124694686712973 On Tuesday 30 June 2009 02:41:45 am Sven Burmeister wrote: > Am Dienstag, 30. Juni 2009 09:34:37 schrieb Roger Oberholtzer: > > > KDE4 konqueror is displaying size in KiB and MiB instead of the > > > traditional KB and MB. Where can I change this so I can view the size in > > > KB & MB? The 'i' means nothing to my use of konqueror, but it is > > > distracting to the eye to now have a whole new useless column of 'i's > > > streaming down the page. The view is a whole lot cleaner without them. > > > I'm sure somebody cares whether the file is 41.6 KiB instead of 41.6 KB, > > > but I would be startled if the percentage of people that do exceeds 1%. > > > > Not only that, Ki is non standard. I have never seen KiG for kilograms, > > or KiM for kilometers. Are milligrams now MiG and hectograms now HeG? > > I think someone was bored one day. Or this is some emerging EU standard? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte > > I did not know that a kg could have more than 1000g and hence that this > comparison would apply. > > > To answer your question, I do not know where to change it. Perhaps in > > the locale settings where you set preferences for how money, date and > > such thing are specified? > > I did not know that byte was a local format either. > > Sven > Sven, Thanks, but that was a "non-answer". The question is "where can I turn the stupid "i" off to get MB and KB back?" MB could be defined and "duck soup" by wikipedia and "MiB" could be defined as "horse crap" -- I don't care. I just want to be able to choose whether I see MB or MiB displayed next to the numbers and I prefer MB. This is KDE which is supposed to be configurable. My screen space is at a premium and I don't need it wasted on an additional column of "i"s streaming down my page that mean, and add, "nothing" to my use of the desktop. So please, asking politely, where do I turn them off? If you don't know, then a simple non-reply will suffice. Thanks. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org