Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-system-monitor
Gnome System Monitor displays memory and partition sizes using units
like MB and GB, but with the non-standard Microsoft definition (MB =
1,048,576 bytes instead of 1,000,000 bytes).
Compare with other apps like Gnome Partition
I'm confused. I'm reading through Bug 318718 – Use consistent units in
procman and it looks like the guy labeled system-monitor developer
agrees strongly with me. That bug reads as if it was a request to use
the Microsoft units instead of the standard ones, which is the opposite
of what I am
To clarify: If I look at my NTFS partition in GNOME Partition Manager
(GParted 0.2.5), it is listed as 68.12 GiB. If I look at it in GNOME
System Monitor 2.18.1.1, it is listed as 68.1 GB (which is technically
wrong, although Microsoft products have traditionally written things
this way).
So you've intentionally modified gnome-system-monitor to display the
wrong units, despite the wishes of the package maintainer, and despite
the Linux programmer's manual, in a way that makes it inconsistent with
the rest of the GNOME desktop? Why?
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Non-standard units, inconsistent with other
The units man page. I don't know anything about gnome-vfs, but how
can you say it's consistent with the rest of the desktop when I've shown
you several GNOME apps that it conflicts with?
Can you confirm that Ubuntu has used a patch to implement a different
version of the software that disregards
** Attachment added: screenshot
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8308031/unit%20differences.png
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Non-standard units, inconsistent with other GNOME apps
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123932
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