On Thu, 1 May 2014 19:34:02 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
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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?
Maybe, index everything else that is not explicitly excluded, since that now appears to be the development philosophy? I mean, after all, it has currently indexed a couple of Terabytes of video, audio and image files that are not sitting in my home directory, and lots of those are on external USB3 drives that have folders that are mounted below mount points outside /home (at boot time from /etc/fstab). How did they get indexed if it only indexes stuff under /home? I'll take a guess - they were already indexed by Nepomuk so they got imported during the conversion. Hence, they're searchable - otherwise they would not be. Actually, what I would expect it to do (because this is NOT Windows) is index exactly what I tell it to index - nothing more, nothing less. But nobody asked, and I don't recall seeing ANY requests for beta testers for this feature on either opensuse-kde or opensuse mailing lists (the only two to which I'm subscribed).
Otherwise, there's no reason to change anything, imho.
Of course, because it works for your use case. Don't assume that just because it "works for me" automatically means "it works for everyone else". BTW, re software testing, I have years of experience in both automated and manual software testing and I well understand that with modern software of the complexity of a beast like KDE it is practically impossible to test every possible path through a program and therefore to find every possible lurking bug prior to release. That simply won't happen. There will always be a "corner case" that will cause the program execution to take a path that wasn't predicted (and therefore tested) during development. C'est la vie. That is not what folks are commenting on. It is the 180 degree phase shift in design philosophy that those who have commented are unhappy about. KDE is not Windows, MacOSX, Gnome, Unity, LXDE etc. It should not try to be. It should stick to doing what it does best - being KDE. :) -- ============================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ============================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org