Re: [patch] improved hal support for gnome-vfs

[Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org>]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Benoît Dejean wrote:

> > * Does this work with any version of libhal, or should we update the
> > libhal version requirement?
> >
> > +static char *
> > +_hal_size_as_string (gint64 size)
> > +{
> > ....
> > +	char* sizes_str[] = {"K", "M", "G", "T", NULL};
> > +	gint64 cur = 1000L;
> > +	gint64 base = 10L;
> > +	gint64 step = 10L*10L*10L;
> > +	int cur_str = 0;
> >
> > Gnome in general, and gnome-vfs in particular uses 1024 for disk sizes.
> > Actually, this code should probably just use the function:
> > gchar* gnome_vfs_format_file_size_for_display (GnomeVFSFileSize size)
>
> HAL is plain right and uses SI prefixes. gnomevfs is wrong. See
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301838.

Historically IT has deviated from the 1000 rule and that's just the way
it is. Claiming 1kB is 1000bytes makes you sound like a marketing droid,
and I think it's false advertising.

Totally opposed. There's enough of this bullshit yet.

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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