"Computer Makers Sued Over Hard Drive Size" http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/18/2245200
;) On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:45 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 14:50 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > > Should this be called generically g_format_size_for_display()? You > > could use it for more than file sizes (free RAM in gnome-system-monitor, > > etc.). > > It's here btw > > http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/glib/trunk/glib/gfileutils.c?revision=6076&view=markup > > char *g_format_file_size_for_display (goffset size); > > Ideally this one needs to take another parameter indicating whether you > want 1kb = 1000 bytes or 1kb = 1024 bytes. > > The reason is that we want to generate nice display names in the volume > monitor; for ordinary media you want 1000 (to match the label on the > media); for optical discs you normally want 1024. gnome-vfs has this > terrible bug where it uses 1024 so you get the label "61.2 MB" media > even when the media itself says 64MB. This is kinda like punching the > user right in the face. It's not a mistake we should make for the new > shiny gvfs stuff. > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-devel-list mailing list > gtk-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
