https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500412
Bug ID: 500412
Summary: The Hardware section of the Info Center show wrong
size values for 'Memory' on its initial (summary) page
Classification: Applications
Product: kinfocenter
Version: 6.3.0
Platform: Debian unstable
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: ilikef...@waterisgone.com
CC: sit...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
Created attachment 178590
--> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=178590&action=edit
8 GiB physical RAM stick not showing correctly on the summary page.
SUMMARY
The Hardware section of the Info Center show wrong size values for 'Memory' on
its initial (summary) page.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Look at your memory hardware specifications.
2. Look at your UEFI / BIOS memory page.
3. Boot into Windows if you dual-boot and look at system info page about the
memory.
4. Open some programs that show informations about your memory.
5. Now go into Plasma and open Info Center.
OBSERVED RESULT
Info Center shows lower non-integer values for the 'Memory' sizes, while the
units are correct, on the 'About this system' page.
On 'Memory' page it shows the right size value.
EXPECTED RESULT
Info Center should display on its 'About this system' page correct integer size
values, like on the 'Memory' page.
If possible, to display also the memory type, since that's available on the
'Memory' page so it would be nice to be show in my case like:
Memory: 8 GiB of DDR4 RAM
If possible, also its speed like:
Memory: 8 GiB of DDR4 RAM @ 2400 MT/s
Similar to how for the CPU, the speed is shown too after the @ sign.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma:
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.0
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.12.15-amd64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS
Hardware: Laptop Dell Inspiron 5770 (17" 1080p@60Hz screen)
CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz
GPU 1: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620 (main)
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 M465 Series
RAM: 8 GiB (7.7 GiB usable)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Since this section is about the hardware and not the software, the hardware
should be presented exactly like it is, not how it's used or how much of it is
used or how much of it remains available to be used.
Memory size should be shown of how much of it it was available, before the
computer booted and the UEFI / BIOS reserved a part of it, the GPU reserved a
part of it too, the kernel reserved a part of it too and then the other drivers
also reserved a part of it or the DE.
On some systems user can also change from UEFI how much of RAM is allocated for
the APU, so then the size will even be more far away from the truth.
I don't care about how much there's still available to use as I can already see
that in software monitors like KDE's System Monitor and Gnome's Mission Center.
Here I want to see the hardware.
I also thought that maybe there's a conversion from what dmidecode wrongly
reports as GB into the correct GiB, but it's not, as 8 GB is 7.450581 GiB and
here I see more.
BTW JEDEC is the only organization that is not suffering from marketing tricks
to sell more and still uses the IEC binary prefixes (powers of 2):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JEDEC_memory_standards
So it's pretty much impossible to have non-integer memory sizes.
Also, if one day this section will be able to show the memory sizes of the GPUs
(VRAM) or the sizes of SSDs / HDDs, since it's a hardware section, it should
show the sizes before they are reserved / formatted / used by something.
Hardware section should show how is the hardware as if it were untouched by
software at all.
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