Unfortunately, this has already been rejected upstream. If you feel strongly about this, the best place would be to push your case at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318718 . I'll mark this as Won't Fix in accordance with the unwillingness of the upstream author to make these changes.
** Changed in: gnome-system-monitor (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't Fix -- Non-standard units, inconsistent with other GNOME apps https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123932 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs