winefile: Make it possible to translate the disk size units.

[Jerome Leclanche]

Users who do not understand the meaning of GiB/MiB/kiB are unlikely to
understand GB/MB/kB. I think the "too geeky" bit is a non-issue.

Personally, I believe kiB is the way to go. Windows is not necessarily
correct in its usage of kB. Most Linux apps also tend to use kiB;
although there's probably no need to take the integration too far.


J. Leclanche



On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Nov 2011, Francois Gouget wrote:
> [...]
>> -     static const WCHAR sFmtGB[] = {'%', '.', '1', 'f', ' ', 'G', 'B', '\0'};
>> -     static const WCHAR sFmtMB[] = {'%', '.', '1', 'f', ' ', 'M', 'B', '\0'};
>> -     static const WCHAR sFmtkB[] = {'%', '.', '1', 'f', ' ', 'k', 'B', '\0'};
>
> To be totally correct these should actually be 'GiB', 'MiB' and 'kiB'
> (the code divides by powers of 1024). However that may be too geeky for
> regular users so I'm not sure we want to do that. But now is probably a
> good time to debate this.
>
> Here are two reference points:
>  * On Windows winefile and explorer use 'KB' & co for the disk space
>   although they divide by '1024'.
>  * Nautilus uses 'kiB' & co.
>
>
> Another point is that we always display the exact byte count for file
> sizes instead of converting it to 'KB', 'MB', etc. That actually matches
> winfile but seems pretty cubersome. On Windows Explorer does show file
> sizes as 'KB', 'MB', etc. so that's what users would expect and I think
> it's a place where we could follow suite.
>
> --
> Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr>              http://fgouget.free.fr/
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