[Thunar-dev] Some ideas to improve Thunar.

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On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:14:37 +0200, Mikko Linnalo <mlinnalo at gmail.com> wrote:
> One tiny issue that I noticed: filesize shown in status pane is using
> "K" instead of "k" when size is shown in kilobytes. Megs (M) and gigs
> (G) are shown with correct capitalisation.

I'm not entirely sure what reasoning was followed by Benny originally but the
uncapitalized letters 'k', 'm' and 'g' stand for the SI expansion of the
number by 1000, 1 million and 1000 million. Consequently kiloByte (kB) is
then shortened to 'K' to make sure it's not misconfused with 'kilo-nothing'.

Hence the consequent naming 'K', 'M', and 'G'.

of course, it would be better to write kB, mB and gB, but people misconfuse
this with 'kb' etc, which stands for kilobit. annoying. especially in a 
network lab!

'K' sounds the least confusing of all of these ;^)

Auke