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Thanks, but that was a "non-answer". The question is "where can I turn the stupid "i" off to get MB and KB back?" MB could be defined and "duck soup" by wikipedia and "MiB" could be defined as "horse crap" -- I don't care. I just want to be able to choose whether I see MB or MiB displayed next to the numbers and I prefer MB. This is KDE which is supposed to be configurable. My screen space is at a premium and I don't need it wasted on an additional column of "i"s streaming down my page that mean, and add, "nothing" to my use of the desktop.
You can not change it, period. MiB is the correct unit per the current standard, so it is here to stay, and devs have the "obligation" to use it. I think I read a commitment to that end somewhere, perhaps in Novell or openSUSE. You could request the devs to add a setting to measure sizes in multiples of 10 instead, and then the units would show as "MB", but meaning 10⁶, which is not what you expect. Some references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541 IEEE 1541-2002 is a standard issued by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) concerning the use of prefixes for binary multiples of units of measurement related to digital electronics and computing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60027 International Electrotechnical Commission's standard on Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix And there you can find the references to the official references of the professional associations. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpbmCgACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WPJwCfSQWZH8Aw9deA4f+oiBOEQjFe D4oAn3X73W+svTWvO9baXHESnGGDA/vU =eX9s -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----