Friday, November 14, 2014

Keywords vs X-KDE-Keywords on .desktop files

Seem similar, do they? But they have a *radical* difference, one is "old" (X-KDE-Keywords) and the other is "new" (Keywords). The "new" one is also an xdg standard and as such the separator is ';'. The old one is just a KConfig string list and thus the separator is ','.

Great isn't it?

TL;DR
X-KDE-Keywords uses , for separation
Keywords uses ; for separation
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1 comment:

  1. AlinThursday, January 08, 2015 1:29:00 PM

    Yeah that's great!! Only the semicolon and comma makes a huge difference as if they are performing same sort of work.

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