In prior version of KDE, Nepomuk's indexing feature was disabled by default, so I never used it. Just for testing purposes, I once tried switching indexing on through the Nepomuk GUI and a process or two started, yet my hard drive didn't seem to be doing anything. Either Nepomuk was broken, or it was unobtrusively indexing my files and didn't hog system resources. It's hard for me to compare Baloo to Nepomuk when, from my impression, Nepomuk wasn't doing anything even when the indexing feature was turned on. Baloo is a whole different story, and I had to turn it off because it was giving me performance problems. I didn't like that by default it's switched on, so the second you log into KDE it starts indexing. I hadn't kept up with any of the changes that were coming with KDE 4.13, and trusted that it would be an improvement over 4.11.4. Therefore, when I was having all types of performance issues related to disk I/O and CPU utilization, it took me time to track down how to finagle with Baloo and stop it. I was surprised that the GUI offers barely any options, and that it's opt-out and not opt-in. I looked around the internet some, and I found a funny post on the Kubuntu forum: "After a few days baloo settled down on my system but on my wife's laptop baloo kept going and going for days making it really difficult to do anything. I found a message that ~/.kde/share/config/baloofilerc has a line in it under [Basic Settings] Indexing-Enabled=true I changed that to Indexing-Enabled=false and the laptop was useable again, but lost a few search items. It's nice when it works but hell when it hogs the system." I love the beginning where he says: "After a few days", and keep in mind that the 2.5" hard drive on his wife's laptop isn't exactly an icon for longevity. I can only imagine the wear and tear the first iteration of Baloo is doing to SSD's. Baloo shouldn't start automatically the first time a user logs into KDE, but I hate when OS's ask you questions through a dialogue box when you just want to get stuff done. I don't have an answer to how this should be done correctly, but I want to reaffirm that Baloo should _not_ start indexing anything without the user's permission. They're already talking about allowing it to be uninstalled by having the Baloo package be split. I want this, because I want to uninstall it. And if my supposition is correct, I don't think I'll ever be installing it again -- not that I don't think it can become better. I just don't need it. On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
On 04/28/2014 04:27 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On 4/27/2014 5:29 PM, Lars Kruczynski wrote:
That method brings up dependency warnings of wanting to downgrade dolphin and gwenview. I just want it completely gone, should I choose break? Will there be an option in the future to not install Baloo at all? Because there should be.
See this Page where the arrogant developer talks about how he is forcging this thing down everyone's throat:
I really liked this one:
"Please trust the developers to keep sensible defaults."
Indeed. The change from "index only what I tell you" to "index everything except what I tell you" is a perfect example of how the developers know better because they have this device the NSA gave them which scans the users' deep consciousness and determines what they really need despite what they say they want, so as to determine what is really, really best for them. No matter what they say they think they want.
These devices have been available to governments and various governmental departments and political leaders for some while now (probably since the beginning of the century at least), and it seems that either they or their OpenSource equivalent are now becoming commercially available
I have a suspicion that these devices were actually developed by Google based on a failed prototype from Microsoft, but that's probably off topic for this forum.
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