Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB

2007-06-13 Thread Dimitris Glezos
O/H Jorge González González έγραψε: >> 3) The abbreviations will never be widely used or known if nobody takes >> the initiative to use them. > We have been using them at the the Spanish GTP at least since I joined, in > 2004. Also, the Fedora Documentation Project uses them consistently. -d -

Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB

2007-05-29 Thread Jorge González González
> 3) The abbreviations will never be widely used or known if nobody takes > the initiative to use them. We have been using them at the the Spanish GTP at least since I joined, in 2004. -- Jorge González González <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Weblog: http://aloriel.no-ip.org Fotolog: http://www.flickr.com/ph

Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB

2007-05-29 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 14:46 -0400, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 19:34 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 19:17 +0200, Daniel Nylander wrote: > > > > > You are correct, it's more correct but maybe not appropriate. > > > As I translator, I have sta

Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB

2007-05-29 Thread Daniel Nylander
Sven Neumann skrev: > Since when do the translators do such decisions on their own? The only > reasonable thing to do at this point is to bring up the question on > desktop-devel-list and wait for a decision. You are totally correct. If we are going to use IEEE 1541, that should be on a global s

Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB

2007-05-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 14:28 +0200, Benoît Dejean wrote: > So if gnome-vfs is not going to be fix, you can : > - fix each program (that's what i did > http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-system-monitor/branches/gnome-2-14/src/util.c?r1=1159&r2=1205 > ) I would even rate that patch as wrong. U

Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB

2007-05-29 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 14:28 +0200, Benoît Dejean wrote: > I'm totally for it. > > They were bugs against gnome-vfs but they were closed WONTFIX IIRC. > > So if gnome-vfs is not going to be fix, you can : > - fix each program (that's what i did > http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-system-mon

Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB

2007-05-28 Thread Benoît Dejean
Le dimanche 27 mai 2007 à 18:30 +0200, Sven Neumann a écrit : > Hi, > > On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 17:49 +0200, Daniel Nylander wrote: > > I guess this topic has been discussed before but.. > > Could you please point me to this discussion? http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301838 -- Benoît D

Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB

2007-05-28 Thread Benoît Dejean
Le dimanche 27 mai 2007 à 18:30 +0200, Sven Neumann a écrit : > Hi, > > On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 17:49 +0200, Daniel Nylander wrote: > > I guess this topic has been discussed before but.. > > Could you please point me to this discussion? > > > I was thinking about bug reporting all applications tha

Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB

2007-05-28 Thread Benoît Dejean
Le dimanche 27 mai 2007 à 17:49 +0200, Daniel Nylander a écrit : > I guess this topic has been discussed before but.. > > I was thinking about bug reporting all applications that use the "old" > convention (kB, MB, GB) and start use the more appropriate KiB, MiB, GiB > etc. > > What do you think

Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB

2007-05-27 Thread Germán Poó Caamaño
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 19:34 +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 19:17 +0200, Daniel Nylander wrote: > > > You are correct, it's more correct but maybe not appropriate. > > As I translator, I have started to notice that more and more > > applications start to use this new co

Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB

2007-05-27 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 19:17 +0200, Daniel Nylander wrote: > You are correct, it's more correct but maybe not appropriate. > As I translator, I have started to notice that more and more > applications start to use this new convention. For the beginning I was a > bit negative but started to lik

Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB

2007-05-27 Thread Daniel Nylander
Sven Neumann skrev: > Could you please point me to this discussion? No, since I was just guessing. > Might be more correct, but I don't think it would be more appropriate. > While kB, MB and GB are common and well-known abbreviations, KiB, MiB, > GiB and the like are not widely used and would c

Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB

2007-05-27 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 17:49 +0200, Daniel Nylander wrote: > I guess this topic has been discussed before but.. Could you please point me to this discussion? > I was thinking about bug reporting all applications that use the "old" > convention (kB, MB, GB) and start use the more appropriate K

Re: kB, MB or KiB, MiB

2007-05-27 Thread Robert-André Mauchin
Le dimanche 27 mai 2007 à 17:49 +0200, Daniel Nylander a écrit : > I guess this topic has been discussed before but.. > > I was thinking about bug reporting all applications that use the "old" > convention (kB, MB, GB) and start use the more appropriate KiB, MiB, GiB > etc. > > What do you think