Re: More on the GUI (post FUDCon)

[Máirín Duffy <duffy redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 11:35 -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:
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>      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.