Ubuntu
gnome-utils package

Baobab uses incorrect units

Bug #74325 reported by Constantine Evans on 2006-12-04

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-utils	Won't Fix	Low	gnome-bugs #382093
	gnome-utils (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Baobab displays directory content sizes in binary prefix based units, but uses SI prefixes. We need to either display sizes with the correct units (KiB, MiB, etc), or have the calculation scheme changed so that the numbers are in SI units. I will report this upstream and write some patches in the next few days.

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Constantine Evans (cevans) on 2006-12-04

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Fabio Marzocca (thesaltydog) wrote on 2006-12-04:

I know that.
But, 99% of gnome users wil get confused by reading Kib, Gib instead of KB, GB. As baobab is a gnome-utils component and all major Gnome applications such as nautilus are using KB,MB and GB, it is a matter of consistancy to keep symbols as they are now.

Changed in gnome-utils:
status:	Unconfirmed → Rejected

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2006-12-04

Changed in gnome-utils:
status:	Unknown → Rejected

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2007-07-20

Changed in gnome-utils:
status:	Invalid → Won't Fix

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Endolith (endolith) wrote on 2008-09-03:

99% of Gnome users are confused when you use "k" to mean "1024", since it means 1000 everywhere else. Please measure in common decimal multiples and use "k-" to mean 1,000, "M-" to mean 1,000,000, etc.

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?units

Many Ubuntu/Gnome programs are following the standard now. Please make Baobab consistent with them.

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Fabio Marzocca (thesaltydog) wrote on 2008-09-03:

We - as all gnome developers - use g_file_format_size_for_display funtion. This is not a bug for Baobab. Pls see glib Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512443

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Endolith (endolith) wrote on 2008-09-03:

Thanks. So fixing the glib bug would fix all the other apps that depend on it?

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Fabio Marzocca (thesaltydog) wrote on 2008-09-03:

As you can see on bugzilla discussion, Gnome Developers has closed it with "NOTABUG" resolution. This means that the issue has not been considered a bug for Gnome.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-15