David Zeuthen wrote: > 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.
Mistake? That's correct behavior. It's not our fault the storage companies lie and use base-10 kB/MB/GB when everyone else uses base-2, and in fact they've been successfully sued in the US for doing this. Reporting the *actual* size of the media in base-2 units is the right way to go everywhere. Whether to use traditional kB/MB/GB or the (IMO somewhat ridiculous) SI KiB(which breaks the normal lowercase k = kilo convention for no reason)/MiB/GiB is another discussion. (I'd vote no in that discussion, at any rate.) -brian _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list