Re: [Usability] Inconsistent file size units

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

With thanks to Calum Benson, see the style guide for more information
about the Units to be used in Gnome documentation, which strongly implies
the units applications are expected to be using.  (I'd be surprised
if the issue of units hasn't be discussed before either here or on the
desktop-devel mailing list but my very quick search didn't throw up
any pertinent results.)

Usability overlaps with various other issues and it always helps to be
familiar with the Gnome Style Guide and also the Accessibilty Guide, to
get the bigger picture.  (Similiarly developers have implementation
constraints, and an ideal user friendly way to implement things might be
far from the easiest or most practical to actually programme.)  always
helps to know a little about the trade offs, or at least know there are
other factors you might not have considered.  I'd strongly recommend
reading the style guidelines after reading the human interface
guidelines if one can spare the time.

Forwarded/cut and pasted message follows:

Or:
http://web.archive.org/web/20061206011111/developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide


The particular page Alan is looking for is:
http://web.archive.org/web/20061206011111/developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/units-2.html

Cheeri,
Calum.