Bug 346044

Dolphin and Konqueror seem to ignore settings in System Settings -> Locale -> Country/Region & Language -> Numbers
But why? Could someone fix it, please.

Thanks for the bug report. Dolphin 4.12.3 uses this to determine the text which should be displayed in the "Size" column:

text = KGlobal::locale()->formatByteSize(size);

So it seems that the problem is in kdelibs. I hope that "klocale" is the right component.

But  John Layt said in bug 312646 :
"It looks like Dolphin uses the default formatByteSize() method which defaults to 1 decimal place and the default algorithm described below, rather than newer api which allows you to set the required significant digits and units to use (http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/classKLocale.html#a566a3d868abfca050e1191b16e85ed73).  Perhaps a quick initial fix will be for Dolphin to define 2 decimal places?"

Thanks for the hint, I completely forgot about the old report. I'll reassign to Dolphin then, but I'm not really sure why the formatByteSize function which does not take a 'precision' argument just ignores the setting in System Settings. Forcing each application to retrieve the setting and then pass it to the formatByteSize overload which takes a 'precision' argument does not look like the most maintainable and future-proof solution to me :-/

I can still reproduce this bug with Dolphin 17.12.3. I'll set the status to CONFIRMED, but I fear that a good fix won't be very easy to implement.

Can confirm still an issue with Dolphin on git master.

Please correct me if I am mistaken, I believe this setting for decimal place for file size does not exist anymore, since Plasma 5 I would guess.

I could not find a trace of it in code and although I remember using it, it is not in the format kcm.

So I suggest to close this as "NOT A BUG".

If people miss the setting they should open a different bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 498820 ***

(In reply to Méven Car from comment #7)
> Please correct me if I am mistaken, I believe this setting for decimal place
> for file size does not exist anymore, since Plasma 5 I would guess.
> 
> I could not find a trace of it in code and although I remember using it, it
> is not in the format kcm.
> 
> So I suggest to close this as "NOT A BUG".
> 
> If people miss the setting they should open a different bug.

I've been trying from time to time Plasma before version 5 and I don't remember seeing it, but ever since I moved to Plasma 5.16-20, I never say it in any way.
There is also no environment variable AFAIK from which it could be set.
I can't believe that such a customizable DE doesn't have a way to customize the precision or at least in my case, to increase it.
Especially in todays' world where having hundreds of gigabytes or tens of terabytes is pretty common. 

Why you wanted this to be closed as "NOT A BUG", when this functionality is definitely missing both in a graphical way and in a textual way (environment variable) and there are at lest 2 bug reports about it?

It seems that it was wrongly closed as a duplicate of my bug report, even though my bug report is newer and that's the duplicate.
But in a way it's good to be this way as my bug report also contains 2 images that better show this problem, so maybe it's easier to understand and replicate by the developers who will try to fix it.