[Thunar-dev] Some ideas to improve Thunar.

[Benedikt Meurer]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>>'K' sounds the least confusing of all of these ;^)
> 
> Not from my perspective.
> 
> If we wanted to be *really* pedantic, we'd recognise that k-, M-, and G-
> are meaningless in this sense since they deal with powers of 10, and
> instead use KiB, MiB, and GiB.  However, I personally can't say
> "kibibyte" or "mebibyte" without collapsing into a fit of giggling, so
> this is a dubious approach at best.
> 
> To take the other view, and not be pedantic at all, I bet that anyone
> who knows what a byte, kilobyte, megabyte, and gigabyte is will
> understand what the UI is trying to tell them regardless of whether it's
> capitalised or not.
> 
> Having said that, I think doing anything but what the standard says is
> sloppy and lazy[2].

So, to sum up, we don't touch it and leave it as KB/MB/GB?

> 	-brian

Benedikt

PS: KiB/MiB/GiB would be ok too, if that helps to solve the problem.