Re: More on the GUI (post FUDCon)

[Joel Granados <jgranado redhat com>]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:35:12AM -1000, David Cantrell wrote:
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> On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Joel Granados wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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:

+1 on the 3 significant digits!!

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>     99.0M
>     2.00G
>     0.96k
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> Everything else in your message sounds great.
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> - -- David Cantrell <dcantrell redhat com>
> Red Hat / Honolulu, HI
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Joel Andres Granados
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