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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] How to configure konqueror to show KB and MB instead of KiB and MiB??
From:       Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister () gmx ! net>
Date:       2009-07-07 17:27:37
Message-ID: 200907071927.37210.sven.burmeister () gmx ! net
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Am Dienstag, 7. Juli 2009 08:07:29 schrieb David C. Rankin:
> 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.

I did reply to Roger Oberholtzer's email, threading helps! And please stop 
double posting to kde developer's list and opensuse list. As other have told 
you already, kde-devel is not for user support. Thanks.

Don't forget to report a bug against zypper, it uses kib too.

Sven
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