Re: g_format_file_size_for_display()

[Kevin Fox <Kevin Fox pnl gov>]

"Computer Makers Sued Over Hard Drive Size"

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/18/2245200

;)

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:45 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 14:50 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > Should this be called generically g_format_size_for_display()?  You
> > could use it for more than file sizes (free RAM in gnome-system-monitor,
> > etc.).
> 
> It's here btw
> 
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/glib/trunk/glib/gfileutils.c?revision=6076&view=markup
> 
> char *g_format_file_size_for_display (goffset size);
> 
> Ideally this one needs to take another parameter indicating whether you
> want 1kb = 1000 bytes or 1kb = 1024 bytes. 
> 
> The reason is that we want to generate nice display names in the volume
> monitor; for ordinary media you want 1000 (to match the label on the
> media); for optical discs you normally want 1024. gnome-vfs has this
> terrible bug where it uses 1024 so you get the label "61.2 MB" media
> even when the media itself says 64MB. This is kinda like punching the
> user right in the face. It's not a mistake we should make for the new
> shiny gvfs stuff.
> 
>       David
> 
> 
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