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glib2.0 package

  1. Bug #369525
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 369525

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Endolith (endolith) wrote :

File sizes should be SI units, not IEC units. Disks are measured in SI units for a reason. The disk size and file size in GLib (Nautilus especially) should be SI units, too. Even Apple does this now. http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419

1,000 byte file = "1.0 kB"
1,000,000 byte file = "1.0 MB"

IEC units are for things like memory that naturally come in multiples of a power of two, to make calculations simpler.

1,024 x 1,024 byte of memory = "1.0 MiB"