[opensuse-kde] Call for testing - new search functionality in upcoming KDE releases
Hello people, some may have heard about movement in the KDE camp with regards to the search functionality. In particular there has been quite a large work on a change in the email and desktop search, especially with regards to speed and memory usage by switching to a new, faster backend than the one used before. This work (the next iteration of Nepomuk, codenamed "Baloo") touches almost everything with regards to search: - File indexing - Contact indexing and completion - Email searching (complete and quick filtering) - Tagging in Gwenview and Dolphin - Searching in Dolphin The changes are quite large , and of course there is potential for regressions (although part of the KDE team has been testing this for the past weeks before it was finally merged in recently). Therefore, for the *daring users only* we would like to start test and report issues upstream so that regressiosn are found and fixed early (the developers are quite responsive). Let me state this again: this is *not* to be used on production systems because it means tracking KDE git master, which can be broken and unstable at times (it's not even in feature freeze). However if you have a testing system to spare, your help would be most welcome. To do so, in a non critical system ;) install the KDE packages from KDE:Unstable:SC (they overwrite the regular KDE packages, hence the need for caution) and ensure you also install "baloo", "kfilemetadata" and "libbaloowidgets4" (they should be pulled in automatically). Before doing so, don't forget to disable Nepomuk prior to installing (the old and the new implementation don't play well together). Once installed, logout and login to start the new system: of course the initial indexing will take a while depending on files, mails, etc. Don't forget to customize options if you need so under "Desktop Search" in System Settings. You can also install "Milou", a plasmoid that can be used for searching (searching in KRunner also should work transparently). Try to use the system normally (also have a look at search, tagging, etc.) and if you spot bugs, report them *upstream* in bugs.kde.org so they can be tracked and hopefully fixed before the release. Your help will surely make sure desktop search in KDE has the right place it deserves. -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team KDE Science supporter GPG key ID: 6E1A4E79
On Donnerstag, 6. Februar 2014 22:07:17 Luca Beltrame wrote:
Hello people,
some may have heard about movement in the KDE camp with regards to the search functionality. In particular there has been quite a large work on a change in the email and desktop search, especially with regards to speed and memory usage by switching to a new, faster backend than the one used before. This work (the next iteration of Nepomuk, codenamed "Baloo") touches almost everything with regards to search:
- File indexing - Contact indexing and completion - Email searching (complete and quick filtering)
Does that mean, that searching on big imap mailboxes will be finally feasible? BTW: unfortunately, even simple mail interactions still doesn't work as expected: drop a imap mail on the desktop, and create a link: an akonadi://item=...desktop item is generated. Okay. Click on it, the mail is shown. Good. Move it to a directory in Dolphin: Okay. Click on it: a hard to interpret error is thrown: "the file or the folder no such collection exist, does not exist". Drop link into mail, the link is a appended: not so good. What would somebody else do with such an attachment? Hmm, Pete KDE 4.11.5/openSUSE 13.1/x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org
In data giovedì 06 febbraio 2014 22:30:07, Hans-Peter Jansen ha scritto:
Does that mean, that searching on big imap mailboxes will be finally feasible?
I have made unscientific tests with my account (~80K mails) it works as expected.
BTW: unfortunately, even simple mail interactions still doesn't work as expected: drop a imap mail on the desktop, and create a link: an
Are you referring to the current stable release? If so, did you file a bug report upstream? -- Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team KDE Science supporter GPG key ID: 6E1A4E79
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