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List:       kde-frameworks-devel
Subject:    Re: plasma-framework, kactivities and kactivities-stats: please consider proper de-KF-ication now
From:       Matthieu Gallien <gallien.matthieu () gmail ! com>
Date:       2023-11-13 8:45:56
Message-ID: 4527238.LvFx2qVVIh () belledonne
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On dimanche 5 novembre 2023 18:01:38 CET Nate Graham wrote:
> On 11/5/23 07:42, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > I was clumsily advocating for this Akademy 2021 or 2022 (can't remember
> > which).
> > 
> > This way it's clearer to application authors when they tie themselves to a
> > given workspace or not.
> > 
> > Also, isn't Elisa able to work without Baloo? It even seems to do the right
> > thing if I trust its CMakeLists.txt. It has Baloo as a recommended but
> > optional dependency, and disable it altogether for Win32 builds.
> 
> Yes, Elisa also includes an internal indexer, for use on Windows and 
> Android, or on *Nix when Baloo isn't installed or is disabled.
> 
> I think the original idea for the app was to delegate all the indexing 
> heavy lifting to Baloo to avoid internal complication, but clearly this 
> has not worked out in practice, since to be truly cross-platform, it 
> can't assume that Baloo is present and active and does need its own 
> indexer. So maybe the best course of action is actually to remove Baloo 
> support entirely and always use the internal indexer, so that we don't 
> have two different code paths.

From my memory, linking to Baloo was needed to query its database providing much \
faster discovery of your music files (and the main reason od  a files indexer). From \
a user perspective, reusing the files indexer database makes for a smoother \
experience. I would prefer to be able to also leverage files indexer services on \
other platforms rather than tying us to the old way of having each application scans \
files on its own (and monitor file system changes, ...). That said, maybe there is a \
way to query baloo database without linking to the library.

> Nate
> 

Best

--
Matthieu


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