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bernardovs23
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Rainmeter Metadata Section

Post by bernardovs23 »

Rainmeter Metadata Section

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[Metadata]
Author=
Version=
License=
Description=
Instructions=
I only included the options that show on the Rainmeter Manager

Author
The author of the skin.

Version
The version of the skin.

License
The name of a standard license or explicit permissions and conditions for ports, mods and derivative works.

Description
Information on what the skin is about.

Instructions
Infromation on how to use the skin
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jsmorley
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Re: Rainmeter Metadata Section

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That was changed / updated a few years ago.

https://docs.rainmeter.net/manual/skins/metadata-section/

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[Metadata]
Name=HWiNFO
Author=JSMorley
Information=Description:|HWiNFO temperatures and fan speed||Edit HWInfo.inc to set sensor information
Version=Feb 7, 2017
License=Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 3.0
The old Description and Instructions fields have been replaced by a single Information field, although if they are there in the skin they are still used, just concatenated into the new field in Manage.
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