Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (471 mails)

[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David C. Rankin wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 June 2009 12:41:54 am Dave Plater wrote:
>   
> > After looking at your screenshot I've finally managed to reproduce the
> > bug. My size column is in fact fixed to 9 characters and when the value
> > 1014.0 KiB appears in the size column it's truncated by dots. I think
> > this bug most probably started with the switch from KB to KiB recently
> > and the program assuming 1024 as a Meg.
> > Regards
> > Dave P
> >
> >     
>
> Whew!,
>
>       Glad to know my eyes weren't playing tricks on me :p  So if I 
> understand you, it's the addition of that one little 'i' causing the problem? 
> That extra character introduced when there was a change from KB and MB to KiB 
> and MiB. (A change I must admit whose importance is lost on me -- I know the 
> difference, I just can't see the relevance of knowing whether you are 
> downloading 226.7 KB file or 226.7KiB file)
>
>       So what are the fix options? Go to 10 characters in width? Why not just 
> make the column behave like the other 3 columns where you can just grab the 
> right heading border and resize the thing? I'm sure the devs will make the 
> right choice.
>
>       Thanks for working through this one with me to help me understand what 
> was going on. Now if it can just be fixed we'll be golden.
>
>
>   
In fact I looked a little bit harder and your size column is limited to
8 characters but mine is limited to 9. A while ago the yast project
changed to KiB etc to correctly indicate multiples of 1024 where KB
indicates multiples of 1000.  Your size column won't even display 100.0
KiB (9 characters) properly whereas mine only has a problem with 1000.0
KiB (10 characters). They have to enable resize of the size column
somehow because if ours are different for some reason due to video
resolution or something, others may even have columns limited to less
than 8 characters.
I've added to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=513242
Regards
Dave P
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