From kde-devel  Tue Jul 30 13:53:53 2002
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:53:53 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: problems with KTrader + audio/x-vorbis
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=102803725316395

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On Tuesday 30 July 2002 15:45, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> On Monday 29 July 2002 22:11, David Faure wrote:
> > The difference is that it says "in general lists are ';' separated",
> > whereas in KDE lists are comma separated.
> This is against the spec (I finally found it):
> "Some keys can have multiple values; these should be separated by a semicolon. 
> Those keys which have several values should have a semicolon as the trailing 
> character. "
> WOW. So we should have
>   X-KDE-list=first;second;third;
> instead of
>   X-KDE-list=first,second,third

Yes KDE1 wanted a trailing ';' delimiter, and this made it into the spec.
Stupid, heh?
But I don't see how X-KDE-list matters, it's only read by KDE anyway.

> One (ugly but compatible) solution should be to have a 
> "X-KDE-StandardListDelim" field and precess the old style if it is not set, 
> and with new one (semicolon for everything) if it is true.

Doesn't work. See the spec: some fields are ',' delimited, some are ';' delimited.
Hmm, well, SortOrder is a bit dead though, I guess?

> PS.: what are the gnomes using?

As I said - please take this to xdg-list@freedesktop.org if you're interested in finding out
more ;)

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
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