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[Thomas Hood <80780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I realize that this bug report is, according to the title, only about
memory and disk sizes, but comment #19 above mentions that network
throughput uses "KB/s" (in the tooltip) and I would like to point out
that this is indeed contrary to Ubuntu policy and the bug still exists
in Ubuntu 10.10.  According to Ubuntu policy
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy), "kilobytes" should be symbolized
"kB".

I was about to make this comment at #366235, since that began as a
report about "incorrect network speed (throughput) units", but the
latter has been assigned to gnome-bugs #580471 where the discussion has
sidetracked into the question of whether the average user prefers to see
throughput measurements in bits or bytes, and into other questions.

Perhaps the decision whether to report bits or bytes can be left to
upstream; but let Ubuntu make sure that the symbols used always follow
Ubuntu standards.

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Title:
  uses unusual units to report memory and disk sizes