Hi *, having installed Mageia 2 recently and not only peaked into it using the live-disk I noticed something that really bothers me a lot:
* Nautilus uses base10 to display filesizes This to me is very annoying and contrary to all the previous years I have been using a computer. As I use both the commandline as well as the graphical filemanager, this discrepancy is driving me nuts. Apparently this did originate from ubuntu with their unit policy https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy which is rather flawed in my opinion. Why I fully support the idea to be clear about what value is represented, the only sensible way to do it would have been to change the units accordingly as opposed to the values. (as many comments also read) The policy even contradicts its own use-case. Bob is not able to compare the filesizes between ubuntu (nautilus) and windows (explorer), unless they patched nautilus to use base2, and that is contradicting their implementation requirements). ################################## So what is Mageia's POV on this topic? * Would a patch against nautilus that restores base2 behavior be accepted? If not: * Do you think it is OK to have commandline tools show different values from GUI tools? * Do you think it is OK to display different numeric values than the rest of the computer world? Note that I don't question the use of correct units, i.e. 132 KiB for base2 and 135 kB for base10 - and I also don't question changing the default basis in any random software, but the use in the filemanager. Upstream very likely will not revert to base10 for nautilus https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665005 a after-the-change bug and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554172 a bug asking for clear values, i.e. matching units that resulted in keeping the unit and changing the base instead of the other way round, heated discussion, with not much consensus) ciao Christian
