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transmission package

  1. Bug #538504
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 538504

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 538504] Re: [UIFe] transmission measures bandwidth in KB/s instead of kB/s

Benjamin Drung [2010-03-14 15:00 -0000]:
> We will differ because of our units policy [1] anyway. Upstream could
> use g_format_size_for_display() and append "/s", then it would be
> consistent.

Please don't. It's not quite clear yet whether we'll keep the
g_format_size_for_display() patch or rather fix only nautilus
(upstream is still arguing whether our patch is an ABI break).

Network speed has never _ever_ been measured in base-2 units, so this
fix seems entirely appropriate to me.

Martin
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