https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402798
Bug ID: 402798
Summary: Add data units (bits, bytes, kilobits, kibibytes, etc)
Product: frameworks-kunitconversion
Version: 5.53.0
Platform: Debian testing
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: jl...@kde.org
Reporter: jrub...@gmail.com
CC: kdelibs-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
KUnitConversion does not feature data storage units in the current source
tree[1] (f46927e). I think this is a useful feature to add.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install the Unit Conversion addon for KRunner
2. Launch KRunner
3. Type "12 gigabytes in mebibytes" into the search bar
OBSERVED RESULT
No result
EXPECTED RESULT
A result of 11444.09 mebibytes
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.3
Qt Version: 5.11.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.51.0
Kernel Version: 4.19.0-1-amd64
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 4 × Intel Core Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
Memory: 5.4 GiB of RAM
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
It's easy to substitute bits as grams for conversion, like kilobit to kilogram,
megabit to megagram, terabit to teragram, since both a bit and a gram equal 1.
Additionally, the prefixes kilo, mega, terra, ... yotta are used by both, and
mean the same thing. However, this does not help when trying to convert a bit
to a byte (which is 8 bits), or SI prefixes (exponents of 1000) to binary
prefixes like kibi, mebi, yobi (exponents of 1024).
The units I would expect to be added are bits (1), and bytes (8), with SI (1K =
1000) and binary (1Ki = 1024) permutations for each from kilo/kibi to
yotta/yobi.
Adding these units would be very useful, since while using a computer, users
deal with these types of units all the time.
NIST has some information about binary prefixes[2][3].
[1]
https://phabricator.kde.org/source/kunitconversion/browse/master/;f46927e9b196d78d117ce06516624094d33dd789
[2] https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
[3] (wayback machine since [2] is down temporarily due to the 2019 US
government shutdown)
https://web.archive.org/web/20181126092457/https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
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