Bug 138893

Summary: Use binary prefixes in KDE applications
Product: [I don't know] kde Reporter: john
Component: generalAssignee: Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description john 2006-12-16 22:33:57 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

It would be nice to have an option in KDE applications to switch between decimal and binary prefixes, such as MB (Megabyte, 10^6 Byte) and MiB (Mebibyte, 2^20 Byte), especially in Konqueror.

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

Maybe this has already been implemented, as it is often stated that GNU coreutils can do this, but if so, it is very well hidden in KDE GUIs.
Comment 1 Beni Cherniavsky 2007-01-13 19:31:55 UTC 
k3b already uses power-of-2 number in file and media sizes, but the strings used are "KB", "MB" and "GB", which is confusing.  Please use the explicitly binary prefixes ("KiB", "MiB" and "GiB") for power-of-two numbers!
[I'm using k3b 0.12.17 (KDE 3.5.5)]
Comment 2 Adrian Friedli 2007-01-13 23:25:53 UTC 
This seems to be a duplicate of Bug 131022
Comment 3 Gilles Schintgen 2007-11-02 14:15:33 UTC 
IMO, it's a duplicate of bug 57240. (Just like 131022)
Comment 4 Lubos Lunak 2008-06-28 12:52:23 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 57240 ***