On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 11:35 -1000, David Cantrell wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Joel Granados wrote: > > > 5. Use Gig for the sizes. I had missed this in previous posts. But it > > be a good idea to have the size in Gb after 999 Mb. We can have a > > function that returns the show-able string. > > I think something along the lines of what you get from 'ls -h' or 'df -h' > would be better. We don't want to show GB for the /boot volume, for example. > And some people may just really want to use MB. > > Could we give users the option to select a display unit and perhaps by default > do something similar to 'ls -h'/'df -h'. I like the two or three significant > digits approach and scale the units as necessary: > > 99.0M > 2.00G > 0.96k I think having a preference for what units to display in the GUI is overkill [1]. The idea to display by default in the units that make most sense for the quantity involved is a great one though, and much better than displaying everything in GB. ~m [1] Unless there is a Really Good Use Case for this, that would be helpful to 90% of users. I can't think of one, but I'm not as well-versed in this domain and the use cases for it. _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
