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

kB, MB or KiB, MiB

2007-05-27 Thread Daniel Nylander
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 about that? -- Daniel Nylander (CISSP, GCUX, GCFA) http://www.DanielNylander