Brian J. Tarricone wrote: >>>'K' sounds the least confusing of all of these ;^) > > Not from my perspective. > > If we wanted to be *really* pedantic, we'd recognise that k-, M-, and G- > are meaningless in this sense since they deal with powers of 10, and > instead use KiB, MiB, and GiB. However, I personally can't say > "kibibyte" or "mebibyte" without collapsing into a fit of giggling, so > this is a dubious approach at best. > > To take the other view, and not be pedantic at all, I bet that anyone > who knows what a byte, kilobyte, megabyte, and gigabyte is will > understand what the UI is trying to tell them regardless of whether it's > capitalised or not. > > Having said that, I think doing anything but what the standard says is > sloppy and lazy[2].
So, to sum up, we don't touch it and leave it as KB/MB/GB? > -brian Benedikt PS: KiB/MiB/GiB would be ok too, if that helps to solve the problem. _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
