I also need to agree with the requester here that even though historically the
computer industry has 'fudged' the SI units to suit it's needs, it's wrong.
And the correct current international standard is to use the MiB/GiB et al
designations for base-2 numbers. From using the MB unit
Unfortunately, this has already been rejected upstream. If you feel
strongly about this, the best place would be to push your case at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318718 . I'll mark this as
Won't Fix in accordance with the unwillingness of the upstream author to
make these changes.
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).
We patch gnome-system-monitor to be consistent with the other desktop
application, marking Won't Fix, that's not a bug
** Changed in: gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Wishlist
Assignee: (unassigned) = Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Status: New = Won't Fix
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There has been a discussion about the units on the ubuntu and debian
list in june if you want to read it
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Non-standard units, inconsistent with other GNOME apps
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123932
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Desktop Bugs, which is a
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
What Linux programmer's manual? It's not inconsistent with the rest of
the desktop, the patch changes the ugly hack used by the gnome-system-
monitor maintainer to use the gnome-vfs function. The right place to
change the units would be the library, but that's something to discuss
upstream and not
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
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Desktop Bugs, which is a bug
gpart is not a GNOME desktop application. gnome-vfs is the library used
by the GNOME desktop to work with drives, volumes, etc. It has a
gnome_vfs_format_file_size_for_display() which Formats the file size
passed so that it is easy for the user to read. Gives the size in bytes,
kilobytes,
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