[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#434273: xfce4-taskmanager: use binary prefixes for memory sizes
- Subject: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#434273: xfce4-taskmanager: use binary prefixes for memory sizes
- From: michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com (Michael Gilbert)
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:14:29 -0400
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20070722201429.3919.91334.reportbug@slunk>
Package: xfce4-taskmanager
Version: 0.4.0~rc2-2
Severity: wishlist
the world is standardizing on binary prefixes (kibi = 2^10, mebi =
2^20, etc) to unambiguously represent data sizes. the confusion arises
because the scientific world uses decimal prefixes (kilo = 10^3,
mega = 10^6, etc). see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix for a
good reference on the problem.
i believe that xfce4-taskmanager should use binary prefixes for
clarity and to avoid confusion.
thanks for the hard work.
mike
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xfce4-taskmanager depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 1.18.0-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.6-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.4.10-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-6 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.12-1+b1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.10.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libpango1.0-0 1.16.4-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.8-2 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfce4util4 4.4.1-1 Utility functions library for Xfce
ii libxfcegui4-4 4.4.1-1 Basic GUI C functions for Xfce4
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.1-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime
xfce4-taskmanager recommends no packages.
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