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Fat-Zer

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Registered: 2012-09-14

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Make thunar display binary-prefix units

Thunar and other xfce apps are displaying size in decimal-based megabytes.
How to make them display everything in units with binary prefixes (e.g. mebibytes or just «normal megabytes»)?

if it makes any difference: I'm using xfce 4.10.0 on linux Mint.
The same situation on gentoo my machine.

Fat-Zer

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Registered: 2012-09-14

Posts: 2

Re: Make thunar display binary-prefix units

ok, it seems that 1000-based units are hardcoded with  g_format_size().
I'll prepare a patch to add such setting to thunar but it would be nice to make this setting system-wide.
I'll be glad to receive some hints how to add system-wide settings, if it's possible now...

Last edited by Fat-Zer (2012-09-15 06:42:46)