When kfilemetadata starts to deliver some properties as string lists clients will need to adapt.
A list of components affected, please complete
| component | string list handling | state | responsible | future plans |
| kfilemetadata | all unit tests are against plain strings | | | |
| kfilemetadata/taglib | broken, puts out strings when there should be stringlists| wip | @astippich | better tests, adapt properties to their correct value types |
| baloo | none | searching breaks | @michaelh | adapt |
| baloo widgets | join `', '` | not yet submitted | @michaelh | use tagswidget for `subject` and `keywords`, join persons with ` & ` otherwise `, ` |
| elisa | join `', '` | submitted | | |
Order of steps to be taken.
# Adapt `baloo`