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Subject:    Re: [opensuse] How to configure konqueror to show KB and MB instead of KiB and MiB??
From:       "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty () suddenlinkmail ! com>
Date:       2009-07-07 6:07:29
Message-ID: 200907070107.29353.drankinatty () suddenlinkmail ! com
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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.

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