Bug 227747 - Add option to select file size base unit
Summary: Add option to select file size base unit
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 219932
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 16.12.2
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Penz
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: 180499 265003 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2010-02-19 23:08 UTC by Frank Steinmetzger
Modified: 2012-05-01 20:03 UTC (History)
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Description Frank Steinmetzger 2010-02-19 23:08:08 UTC
Version:           1.4 (using KDE 4.4.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

I was (and still am) a big fan of Konqueror 3 as a file manager, and for more complex stuff I still prefer Krusader. But lately, I’m quite getting used to Dolphin now, for its capabilities have reached a level where it’s become quite usable.

There are only minor details left that bug me:
I find it difficult to get an idea about filesizes in a bigger list of files when it shows their sizes like this:

231.5 MiB
491.0 KiB
159.5 KiB
 33.2 MiB
883.4 KiB
...

Because both have vertical lines and diagonal ones in the same direction, M and K are hard to distiguish by just flying over the list.

May I ask to consider adding a checkbox to the Details view options, which lets one chose to dis-/enable automatic base unit selection? (Just like *cough* Krusader does). It’s just faster if I can see from the length of a filesize string, how big files are in relation to one another.

Thanks for your time.
Comment 1 Peter Penz 2010-10-11 17:29:33 UTC
*** Bug 180499 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Frank Reininghaus 2011-02-01 16:33:46 UTC
*** Bug 265003 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Mark 2012-05-01 19:50:52 UTC
Interesting, but i think this has to be done in a more system wide generic way. Or kde wide at the very least.

My suggestion for this one is probably to add it to System Settings -> Country/Region & Language -> Numbers tab then add a field: "Filesize prefix type" which allows you to choose between "Binary prefix" (1024 - kiB aka kibibyte) or "SI prefix" (1000 - kB aka kilobyte)

However, we might need to work together with Gnome here since Ubuntu has already changed to using the SI prefix: http://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-implements-units-policy-will-switch-to-base-10-units-in-future-release so making this a system wide thing is probably better.

Even more extreme, this should probably go through freedesktop.org as well!
Comment 4 Peter Penz 2012-05-01 20:03:05 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 219932 ***