On Thursday, May 01, 2014 10:17:04 Sam M wrote:
A: File indexing can be disabled by adding the users' home folder to the System Settings -> Desktop Search -> Do not search in these locations list.
The thing is, not everybody is going to read the documentation or know to do this. How hard is it to have a GUI option to turn indexing off? You sound so positive that this foisted feature is wanted on a wide scale, but I'm coming across quite a few threads where people are talking about not liking it. It sounds like there are also quite a few unhappy users over Baloo when searching bug reports. Extrapolate this situation, and you have a lot more people who wouldn't like Baloo if they knew what it was or what it was doing, or you have people that understand its shortcomings and aren't whatsoever involved in forums or any mailing list.
You are making a false assumption. As of the last "best guess" there are something like 440,000 users of openSUSE. KDE is the default desktop. So just for the sake of argument, lets say that 2/3rds of those installs are running KDE. 440,000 x .66 = 290,400 users. Now, how many of those users are tracking KDE:Current, rather than just running with the default 4.11.4 from the 13.1 Repos? I have no idea, but for the sake of argument, as most users never do actually change the defaults (a choice, I MIGHT add, that you made, by enabling KDE:Current, or KDE:Distro:Factory, or whatever non-base repo you decided to enable), lets say 3/4 of that userbase is still using defaults, which are still using nepomuk as the indexer. 290,400 x .25 = 72,600 Users, that have KDE repositories, other than the default 13.1 repos enabled. So, just as an intellectual exercise, we have 72,600 users that are using openSUSE KDE 4.13.x with the baloo indexer at the moment. Now, going and looking at the openSUSE bugzilla, and doing a simple search for "baloo" I find, wow, look at that! Not a single open bug report against Baloo. https://bugzilla.novell.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=baloo. So, we have, for the sake of argument, 72,600 Users of baloo, and ZERO bug reports, and near as I can tell, Five of you here on the mailing list, complaining about baloo, and the way it is implemented. Five Users is what percentage of 72,600? Well, according to percentagecalculator.net, it is 0.0068870523415977955% Statistically insignificant. Perhaps in the overall ecosystem of all distributions, there is a higher number of folks complaining about baloo, but I'm only concerned about openSUSE, as this is the openSUSE-KDE mailing list. So please,check your egos at the door. It's not that we don't care, it's because you don't matter, and frankly, I'm getting pretty bloody tired of this thread.