[Bug 573382] Re: usage of mixed units (bytes, MiB, GiB) for file size and space

[Timothy Arceri]

This is not a bug it makes sense to use different units in different
applications.

In the real world I go to the supermarket and things are for sale in grams and kilograms. When I hire a removal truck its rated in tonnes.
Could you imagine how confusing it would be to walk into the supermarket and try to work out the price of apples if they were marked at $2 per 1000 grams. Or to hire a 1,500,000 gram truck.

Maybe the difference between kb, Mb, Gb, Tb is harder to understand for
those country's not using the metric system.

Also this is not what the upstream Nautilus bug is about. The upstream
bug is about the use of different units in Nautilus itself which again I
dont think is an issue in fact I think its more useful to have something
displayed as 1.5Gb rather than 1,500,000 Kb as suggested.

For those who dont know:
The K in Kb stands for Kilo which is 1,000
The M in Mb stands for Mega which is 1,000,000 (One Million)
The G in Gb stands for Giga which is 1,000,000,000 (One Billion)
The T in Tb sands for Tera which is 1,000,000,000,000 (One  Trillion)

In other words each unit is just multiples of 1,000. 
Kb is 1,000 bytes, Mb is 1,000 Kb, Gb is 1,000 Mb, Tb is 1,000 Gb

In summary this is just one of those things you should learn about to
use you computer effectively. It will also he you when deciding the
specifications of your next computer, tablet, smartphone, etc

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Title:
  usage of mixed units (bytes, MiB, GiB) for file size and space

Status in Baobab:
  New
Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Confirmed
Status in Nautilus:
  Confirmed
Status in The synaptic package manager:
  New
Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
  gnome-utils 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
  gparted 0.5.1-1ubuntu2
  nautilus 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
  synaptic 0.63.1ubuntu6

  
  Several programs show mixed units in the same table. This is impractical and confusing as you have to compare manually. Please see the attached screenshots for examples.

  A simple solution would be to use one default unit (for each program):
  GParted: GiB
  Nautilus & baobab: MiB
  Synaptic: KiB

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