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Posted: 18 Mar 2006, 17:13
by Jan Rysavy
Mem wrote:Every good application I know uses "kB" in correct meaning, not "KB".
Mem, please read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541 and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix.
We could switch to KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB units as defines IEEE 1541 standard, if it will be widely accepted (Microsoft Windows, majority of Windows applications).
It doesn't matter if your "good applications" displays kB or KB. For numbers based on powers of two it is nonsense, according to SI and IEEE 1541 standards.
Posted: 18 Mar 2006, 17:47
by Mem
OK, I understand that both these prefixes (k/K) are equally bad (nonsense for base other than 10), but you have anyway chosen "KelvinByte" instead of "kiloByte"?
Just joking
, I promise stop spamming about this k/K topic and just focus on questions about Windows Explorer if I may:
- Do you think the unit used in Explorer can be obtained from system? (Because my WXP SP2 CZ shows "kB", and if SS's aim is to be compatible with Explorer as much as possible, this would be the needed feature)
- Has anyone here tested Windows Wista beta and can tell what shows Explorer there?
Posted: 18 Mar 2006, 17:51
by Jan Rysavy
Mem wrote:- Do you think the unit used in Explorer can be obtained from system? (Because my WXP SP2 CZ shows "kB", and if SS's aim is to be compatible with Explorer as much as possible, this would be the needed feature)
We don't know such (Windows API) function.
Posted: 18 Mar 2006, 22:06
by jis
Mem wrote:
- Has anyone here tested Windows Wista beta and can tell what shows Explorer there?
KB in English Windows Vista:
Posted: 09 Oct 2006, 05:20
by Georgd
Jan Rysavy wrote:We could switch to KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB units as defines IEEE 1541 standard, if it will be widely accepted (Microsoft Windows, majority of Windows applications).
Well, that approach means noone will ever start and the mess remains
As implied in
http://forum.altap.cz/viewtopic.php?t=1485&highlight= it would be nice to have the option (config => general) to show GB or GiB or GB/GiB, the latter showing both. Would be handy for ALT+F1 etc where it's not easy to see the other measurement, see those screenshots:
Obviously, for CTRL+Q, CTRL+F1 etc. already both informations are provided, thus the current lable MB just has to be replaced with MiB and it's fine. But for several other places, there's just MiB or MB shown. thus it's difficult to see whether a x MB file fits on a disk with x MiB free...
What do you think of this approach? As users can choose, noone will be annoyed, but it offers power users the information they need for some tasks.
/Georg
