Review Request: The KSystemActivityDialog uses MB as default unit.

[Matthias Fuchs]

Am Dienstag 30 November 2010, 23:10:27 schrieb Sebastian Kügler:
> On Tuesday, November 30, 2010 20:39:07 Matthias Fuchs wrote:
> > > no, keep it simple. kb is a good granularity. one unit keeps visual
> > > scan comparisons easy. adding separators would probably help with
> > > that.
> > 
> > Yes I like that myself as it is clean and simple. So I'll see if I come
> > around  updating my patch to add seperators by default. :)
> 
> Erm, sorry to poop the party again, but separators depend on the locale as
> well. For example, in Europe, adding a "." to make 600.000 (600K) more
> readable, is not even commonly used, while in the U.S. the "." is used to
> display fractions, in Germany, one would use the "," for that, so at least
> for those two different regions, you'd either write 600,000.00 or
> 600.000,00 (and both would be incorrect in many cases, depending on your
> locale).
> 
> If you're trying to do this manually, you're opening a can of worms. The
> problem has also already been solved in KLocale.
> 
> If in doubt about this, ask Albert Astral Cid or John Layt.

I never would have thought of doing that manually.^^