Re: [GParted-Devel] Calculator

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

Hi Rick,
I found that actually xcalc is included in GParted live. Therefore you
can run "xcalc" in the terminal and it will show up.

Steven.

Papa Bear wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 08:12 +0800, Steven Shiau wrote:
>   
>> Hi Rick,
>> Thanks for the suggestion. Which one do you recommend?
>>
>> Steven.
>>
>> Rick Ellis wrote:
>>     
>>> A Calculator would be a welcome addition to GParted Live.
>>>
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> Hi Steven
>
> When I'm able partition from Ubuntu I use the desktop calculator for
> whatever version I happen to be using. That's 9.04 right now because
> 9.10 only recognizes my on-board sound when it feels like it. I looked
> around the internet  a bit when I read your question and didn't really
> find one. 9.04 has gcalctool 5.26.0 . I like my partitions nice and even
> for my for my operating systems so I use the calculator to multiply the
> size I would like my partition to be in gigabytes, by 1024 (1 gig). The
> current configuration of my 100 gig HD shows in GParted exactly 27 GiBs
> for the buggy 9.10 installation, and exactly 64 GiBs for the 9.04. The
> swap file gets the uneven size of 2.16 GiBs. In bits that's 27648,
> 65536 and 2212 respectively. When I formatted the drive with GParted, I
> used the calculator in my Motorolla phone.
>
> The best way to do it would be to create one that converts
> automatically. Maybe I'll try that for my first programming project in
> many moons. I'm going to attempt to learn to program in Java. 
>
> It's an open source idea, so feel free to implement anything you like. I
> will send you one if and when my project actually works. The last time I
> programmed, C was a brand new programming language. So I wouldn't hold
> my breath waiting for me to come up with one anytime soon.
>
> Thanks for considering the idea,
> Rick Ellis
>   

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