On Saturday, March 29, 2014 03:53:00 PM Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote:
>
> Last I checked, the list is as wide as the dialog and there is quite some
> space where a full path will (mostly) fit in, so it should be good. Also,
> is that bug reported on bugs.kde.org?
>

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332760

It's not about the width. The single folder looks much better and is less
scarier.

> > > - A simple black list will not do. I need a white list - the ability to
> > > specify disjoint folders for indexing, not the other way around. And I'm
> > > sure the majority of people will be the same.
> >
> > What makes you say that?
>
> Well right now I don't know whether Baloo is indexing by root drive, and/or
> my home folder, and/or my other 2 disks, and/or my USB drive.
>
> Personally I'd like a whitelist because I'd like to command my desktop
> search to search at some places rather than it trying to search everything
> and me restricting it for some paths. The former makes you feel in command
> (TM).

Isn't that just because you've bad experiences with Nepomuk? Also, I'd love to
know what kind of files you don't want it to index. I understand source code,
but what else?

>
> TBH, even I thought the dialog is WIP ;)
>

What would you recommend? Apart from both white list and black lists, which
I'm against.

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Vishesh Handa