Bug 474155

Summary: plasma-systemmonitor should show bandwidth in SI bits/s, not binary-prefixed bytes/s
Product: [Applications] plasma-systemmonitor Reporter: Andreas Nordal <andreas_nordal_4>
Component: generalAssignee: KSysGuard Developers <ksysguard-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: minor CC: ahiemstra, nate, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.27.7   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Andreas Nordal 2023-09-04 19:58:27 UTC 
I would like plasma-systemmonitor's bandwidth view (specifically its Y-axis) to show 1000s of b/s, not 1024s of B/s. E.g. my internet bandwidth is 10 Mb/s, not 1.3 MiB/s.

I don't think it needs to be configurable: Isn't SI-b/s simply the common unit of bandwidth? To the point of being confusing when it's anything else? Case in point: Every ISP gives numbers in megabits/s. Try asking any non-technical person what that is in mebibytes/s.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Run plasma-systemmonitor → Logg → Network
2. Take a bandwidth test.

OBSERVED RESULT
Wrong unit on the Y-axis.

EXPECTED RESULT
Right unit on the Y-axis.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230902
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.7
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.109.0
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-09-05 19:47:49 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 453854 ***