On 04/28/2014 11:42 AM, John Andersen wrote:
The ability to turn it off and on, select directories to include/exclude, and file types to exclude.
In short, All of those things that you could do for managing nepomuck.
Since all of this ends up being a manipulation of one's baloofilerc (something I had to find by trial and error and an hour of googling) it shouldn't have been doable, and would have gone a long way toward user acceptance.
Oh, and I would have set indexing OFF by default too, which is the same way that opensuse delivered nepomuck IIRC.
Three's an old joke about a boy who said nothing from birth until one day he complained at a mean that him mashed potatoes were lumpy. His parents were amazed to hear him speak. His comment "Well I didn't say any8tng because until now everything was OK". I realise many other people are complaining about this release of KDE, but we are used to them complaining. There seems to be a visceral, a religious reaction to me complaining (and it wasn't even in my signature block!). Until now I've been a keen supporter of KDE. Even in .0, .1, .2 days when it had new release teething troubles, rather than complain I pointed out that this was a normal cycle of new product with FSS. But now we had a stable and mature product at .11, .12. Control of nepomuk was in systemsettings and as John said, it default was OFF so we could ignore it if we installed it unaware. And anyway, it wouldn't do anything unless it was configured and configuring it involved telling it which directories to index. I don't think I'm being unfair when I use the term "Jump the shark" for the side effects we are experiencing with this new release. The last few releases went pretty smoothly, now this! Perhaps the emotional reaction is because we've grown used to KDE being stable, not giving us any surprises, not causing loss of data, not doing a volte-face in how it works. John and I usually disagree on so much, but I agree with him in this instance. -- "Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better." -- Pat Riley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org