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Make consistent use of MiB (binary sizes) in GUI and tools and to avoid any misinterpretation #7889

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jamke opened this issue Nov 17, 2022 · 1 comment · May be fixed by QubesOS/qubes-manager#380
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Make consistent use of MiB (binary sizes) in GUI and tools and to avoid any misinterpretation #7889

jamke opened this issue Nov 17, 2022 · 1 comment · May be fixed by QubesOS/qubes-manager#380
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jamke commented Nov 17, 2022

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The problem you're addressing (if any)

Currently Qubes OS uses "MB" to describe the size of 1024*1024 bytes. It has this disadvantages.

  1. You never know what MB is. It can be 2^20 bytes as in Windows, or 10^6 bytes as in memory and disk specifications.
  2. All other GNU+Linux-based OSes and almost all software for them uses "MiB", "KiB" and etc to avoid any misinterpretation. I think, Qubes OS should stick to GNU+Linux standards of naming. Dolphin, Partition manager, command-line tools like dd do support binary notation.

The solution you'd like

The usage of MiB and other binary prefixes for sizes everywhere (in GUI and qubes commandl-ine tools) can make everything clear and consistent.
The usage of MB, especially as 10^6 should be left for sellers of RAM, HDD and SSD to deceive their buyers only.

The value to a user, and who that user might be

No misunderstanding and misinterpretation, consistent values in Qubes OS GUI and tools.
@jamke jamke added P: default Priority: default. Default priority for new issues, to be replaced given sufficient information. T: enhancement Type: enhancement. A new feature that does not yet exist or improvement of existing functionality. labels Nov 17, 2022
@andrewdavidwong andrewdavidwong added help wanted This issue will probably not get done in a timely fashion without help from community contributors. C: other P: minor Priority: minor. The lowest priority, below "default." good first issue This is a recommended issue for first-time contributors. and removed P: default Priority: default. Default priority for new issues, to be replaced given sufficient information. labels Nov 18, 2022
@andrewdavidwong andrewdavidwong added this to the Non-release milestone Nov 18, 2022
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Use MiB & GiB (binary size) in Qube Manager
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fixes: QubesOS/qubes-issues#7889
alimirjamali added a commit to alimirjamali/qubes-manager that referenced this issue Aug 9, 2024
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Use MiB & GiB (binary size) in Qube Manager
867df5f 
fixes: QubesOS/qubes-issues#7889
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p.s. This is for Qube Manager only. If there is any other occurrence of MB or GB in other GUI (or CLI) tools, please report them by replying to this issue.

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Make consistent use of MiB & GiB in GUI/CLI tools
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supplementary to QubesOS/qubes-issues#7889
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