On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Sven Burmeister wrote: > 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 I have not followed this thread but I hope the request is to have various apps display MiB and MB etc. Where MiB is (1024)**2 and MB is (1000)**2 If so, I agree. If the request is to continue to use the (1024)**2 factor, but change the suffix from MiB to MB, that is just plain wrong. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Head of EDD Tape Extraction and Processing team Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer Preservation and Forensic processing of Exchange Repositories White Paper - The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org