From kde Fri Apr 18 02:55:17 2014 From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan () cox ! net> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 02:55:17 +0000 To: kde Subject: Re: [kde] What is baloo_file_extractor and why is it humping my hard drive? Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=139778979730632 Thomas Tanghus posted on Fri, 18 Apr 2014 02:24:05 +0200 as excerpted: > On Thursday 17 April 2014 21:07 Luiz Felipe Talvik wrote: >> It is KDE's new file indexer. >> In yours installation you seem to have the old settings interface and >> the new file indexer. I've upgraded to 4.13 in Kubuntu and the Nepomuk >> search settings was replaced. >> >> You can disable baloo editing: "~/.kde/share/config/baloofilerc" >> Change "Indexing-Enabled=false" to "Indexing-Enabled=true" > > That sound a bit counter-intuitive? Isn't it the other way around? As a kde4-live-development-head tester that has been following baloo both in the news and in the git commits, I can confirm that baloo did indeed replace nepomuk. Formerly named nepomuk2, the PR says it's faster and more efficient than nepomuk was, and I believe PR is also part of the reason for the rename, baloo from nepomuk2, as well, in part because nepomuk already had such a bad name among some users. Meanwhile, for my own kde installation, as I run gentoo I can and have set USE=-semantic-desktop, and turned off a few related flags as well. Thus, on my system it's not only disabled at run-time, but is also disabled at build time, and none of the group akonadi, mysql/mariadb, virtuoso, rasqual, redland, nepomuk, are installed on my system. Strigi is still installed as some of its headers are required to build bits of kde4 even with semantic-desktop build-time disabled as far as possible, but without a backend to work with at either build-time or run-time, it's pretty well neutered, little more than build-time headers for stub- functions that will never do anything at runtime anyway, without a backend to work with. The PR around kde5/frameworks is that it's rather more modular than kde4, which hopefully means I can continue build-time-disabling semantic- desktop in kde-frameworks-5, as well. One of these days I'll probably install the plasma2-live WIP, about the only actual kde5-based apps yet available, and see how it's coming... (The main reason I haven't done so yet is time. This week was originally supposed to be a light week at work and I was hoping... but now I'm doing 10 hour days and am headed for overtime again. OTOH my bank account's not complaining...) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.