[Thunar-dev] Some ideas to improve Thunar.

[Jonas Mårtensson]

"Jaanus Rõõmus" wrote:

>
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:14:37 +0200, Mikko Linnalo 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'.
>
> actually, in SI, k is kilos, M is megs and G is gigs, m is millis
>
> but yes, KB, MB and GB are usually used
> >
> > 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
> >
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Thunar should be using *IEC standard prefixes.*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix#Specific_units_of_IEC_60027-2_A.2
That's the correct way of doing it!

Am I wrong?

/Jonas