Comment 14 for bug 538165

"In this case, though, CDs have always, unlike hard disks, been labelled in binary megabytes, and my opinion is that it would be against the spirit of the new units policy (even if not its letter) to quote CD image sizes in decimal megabytes."

Yes. DVDs are measured in decimal, though, and that was causing even more confusion for people who couldn't fit 4.4 "GB" on a 4.7 GB disk.

No matter what is done, the software needs a well-designed interface that shows the user what they need to see in a given context. I think Brasero should show both measurements side-by-side, for instance, or show the disk size and image size in the same units near each other. I don't care if you write "700 MiB" or "734 MB", but please don't continue using the erroneous "700 MB" with no qualifier.

And yes, only half-fixing the problem and leaving a bunch of apps conflicting with each other in an LTS release is not good. (But not really the end of the world, either, since the status quo is already inconsistent and confusing.)