2007/7/15, Raphael Bosshard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello there! > > One of the most outstanding points of the GNOME desktop is the focus > towards usability and consistency. This is one of the reasons I'm > using GNOME. There is, however, one thing that has been bugging me for > quite some time now: the inconsistency in the use of file size units. > > I guess that most of the readers know the problem of using SI units as > prefixes for file sizes and similar power-of-two values, so I won't > elaborate on this point. Readers new to that topic I point to [1]. > > To 'fix' the problem, some of the GNOME applications have started > using binary prefixes. This creates inconsistencies; not only are > users forced to deal with two different units for the same thing. Now > this is not a problem for experienced users, but it somewhat > complicated to explain this to non-technical users.
FWIW, this was discussed on the i18n list http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2007-May/msg00109.html where AFAICT the stronger opinion was towards using the binary prefixes (with the usual amount of people stating intent to refuse such things). Don't remember seeing it on desktop-devel yet, so perhaps re-sending to there might be approperiate (both i18n and usability lists have narrower audience and d-d-l is where the discussion and eventual consensus should be happening). -- Kalle Vahlman, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by http://movial.fi Interesting stuff at http://syslog.movial.fi _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
