On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:14:37 +0200, Mikko Linnalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One tiny issue that I noticed: filesize shown in status pane is using > "K" instead of "k" when size is shown in kilobytes. Megs (M) and gigs > (G) are shown with correct capitalisation.
I'm not entirely sure what reasoning was followed by Benny originally but the uncapitalized letters 'k', 'm' and 'g' stand for the SI expansion of the number by 1000, 1 million and 1000 million. Consequently kiloByte (kB) is then shortened to 'K' to make sure it's not misconfused with 'kilo-nothing'. Hence the consequent naming 'K', 'M', and 'G'. of course, it would be better to write kB, mB and gB, but people misconfuse this with 'kb' etc, which stands for kilobit. annoying. especially in a network lab! 'K' sounds the least confusing of all of these ;^) Auke _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
