On 05/01/2014 01:34 PM, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
On Thursday 01 May 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.
I think that's nonsense. Nobody bothers about this who doesn't know what it is, really. It is very unobtrusive (ok, in this version we have a few issues that are being ironed out, but nobody who has no clue uses kde:current anyway).
Home users don't know how to disable the search in Mac OS X, Windows, their Android phone - and they have no problem.
It sounds like there's a great deal defensiveness going around over not only the functionality of Baloo, but the decision to hold steadfast with it being unremovable, its default options and behavior (opt-out and not opt-in), and not asking the user permission to start indexing upon initial login. This whole situation with adding the $HOME folder to turn indexing sounds to me like putting a key in a lock, turning it, and the deadbolt goes the opposite way. It makes no sense to me.
Maybe it would be nice if the configuration dialog would explain that if you add your home to the 'do not index' list, it won't index anything. Although that seems pretty bloody obvious, what else would you expect it to do?
Otherwise, there's no reason to change anything, imho.
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