Menu
▾
▴
#235 Metric Megabytes
It would be easier to set up search-filters according
to size if the reported sizes and transfer speeds were
given in metric, where mega means 1,000,000 and kilo
means 1,000. There is admitedly much historical
precedent for using Kilo and Mega to mean 2^10 and
2^20, but this is an accident of history, and I can't
see any advantage to it. For the binary powers there
is the kibi/mebi system, as used by a very few
programs. I appreciate their exactitude but powers of
10 are good enough for me. Thanks for the awesome program!
Logged In: YES
user_id=643728
In my opinion, Megabyte, Kilobyte etc. shouldn't be used at
all for the next 50-100
year until everybody forgot that it once meant something
else than 10^x bytes. If everybody uses "Megabytes" with a
different meaning that's the worst.
Yes, we should change KB -> KiB, MB -> MeB, GB -> GiB etc.
However, I assume your request is rather about a better
possibility to edit the size filter. Spinbuttons
don't make sense here. These should be normal entries and we
should accept suffixes such as MB, MiB etc.
Logged In: YES
user_id=643728
This is implemented in current CVS:
The GUI uses SI prefixes according to IEC 60027-2 (2000-11)
Ed. 2.0 everywhere now. In the search filter dialog you can
use base10 suffixes KB, MB, GB etc. as well as base2 KiB,
MiB, GiB etc.