= Proposal topic =
Ubuntu's technical board recently have approved a unity policy as described in
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy
References,
http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/03/09/%23ubuntu-meeting.html
15:30 through 16:00
It seems very controversial
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/03/ubuntu-1004-reads-file-sizes.html https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554172 https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2009-May/008277.html http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2009-June/msg00014.html
This is being enforced on desktop apps starting from the next versions and bug reports are being apparently being filed upstream. One of the upstream projects for which I am a maintainer of wants Fedora to weigh on this before they make any changes.
I am requesting FESCo to express their opinion on this.
= Owners =
Rahul Sundaram (mether)
(corrected title, which made me think of Fedora Unity. ;)
We can discuss this at the next meeting.
Well, it makes sense to no longer leave users confused over what a "MB" or "GB" actually is. KDE already has a policy like this (KDE 4 file managers always show "KiB", "MiB", "GiB" sizes), see [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57240], and in particular [https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57240#c75].
What would be more controversial would be a policy whether to use the decimal or the binary units by default (or make it dependent on context, e.g. decimal units for disk sizes, binary units for RAM sizes, to match what manufacturers advertise). KDE defaults to always binary. But using the 'i' when talking about the binary units makes a lot of sense for consistency and should not be that big a controversy.
I don't see why this is something fesco should have an opinion on. It's a UI change. I can't think of any reason to not defer to upstream on this.
It should be a feature for F14 and go through the feature process, and then FESCo should have an opinion on it. Which should be "hell yes".
There's no excuse for being deliberately inaccurate.
Fesco currently would rather upstream projects form their own policies than anything being enforced in Fedora at this time.
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