Hi Olav, *, On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Olav Vitters <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 02:57:16PM +0200, Christian Lohmaier wrote: >> Apparently this did originate from ubuntu with their unit policy >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy which is rather flawed in my >> opinion. > > FWIW, I'm not interested in making such changes. I prefer base 2, but > don't see the point of making glib/gtk+ behave differently across > distributions.
It is not making glib/gtk behave differently, it is just requesting differently processed string from glib. glib already provides functions / corresponding flags to switch between the two bases. A patch would be passing G_FORMAT_SIZE_IEC_UNITS to the function call. ciao Christian
