On 05/03/2014 07:45 AM, Rodney Baker wrote:
On Sat, 3 May 2014 12:40:39 Hans de Faber wrote:
[...] Most of the time I don't need an indexer,i want a >>>simple<<< way to switch it on and off. (This is no problem or additional complexity, maybe a present for christmas.)
Add the KDE Extra Unstable repository for openSuSE 13.1...
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/Extra/openSUSE_1 3.1/
...and install the "baloo kcm" package. It adds a "Desktop Search - Advanced" item to "Configure Desktop" and gives you much finer grained control, including the ability to switch it on and off with a simple checkbox. Almost like nepomuk's old control panel. :)
Yes, it is still under development and it is not (yet) part of the official repositories but IMHO it should be pushed upstream. Kudos to the developer who contributed this - it should really have been part of the baloo package from day 1.
It also adds the ability to tell baloo exactly what extra directories to index, not just what to exclude. Negative AND positive control. Much better.> :)
Yes, much better!
I do have a usability question.
The 'file manager' mode of Konqueror seems to be 'embedded dolphin'. If you don't have dolphin installed then the file manager mode of Konq doesn't work. But there doesn't seem to be the search facility on the interface available with Konqueror. Am I missing something?
While on the 'Am I missing something' tack ... Using dolphin, the search seems to be simply by keyword. I tried indexing my ~/Documents and I'm finding this useless because its overwhelming. Is there some kind of boolean search or the kind of search many fill text databases have where you can say things like
<keyword> in the same paragraph as <another keyword>
or similar expression such as "within 100 words of", "on the same page as"or other things I've encountered in commercial whole text software and databases. It will probably technically be possible, but afaiks dolphin lacks the UI for
On Saturday 03 May 2014 11:14:28 Anton Aylward wrote: this. I think it should order the results based on how close the words are that you enter, how about that. Hmmm, that's actually worth a feature request... Let me mail Peter :D -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org