Re: keywords in gnome-control-center

[Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>]

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Mattias Põldaru <mahfiaz gmail com> wrote:
> 03.03.2012 07:04, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy kirjutas:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> How are they used, for example "Wallpaper;Screen;Desktop;"? In
>> Vietnamese, a word can consist of many "English words" (i.e. spaces
>> are part of a word). When I translate keywords, should I also replace
>> these spaces with semicolons?
>
> Unity and gnome-shell use these keywords to match applications. So if you
> type the application name or any of these keywords, that app shows up. If it
> is relevant, you can even add more keywords and aliases, if you language has
> many alternative translations for some of these words.
> But as Funda noted, you need to keep the semicolons.
>

Apparently, these words are accent-sensitive (for example, έλεγχος and
ελεγχος are different,
so when the user mistypes without an accent in the local script,
nothing appears.
So, a tip is to also type the words without accents.

Simos