On 31.10.2019 at 07:50, Bobbie Sellers scribbled:
On 10/31/19 3:33 AM, Aragorn wrote:
On 31.10.2019 at 18:32, Doug Laidlaw scribbled:
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What is baloo and do I need it? I am trying to run Xfce with only
the good bits of KDE. =20
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It's part of the semantic desktop paradigm. It's the successor of
Nepomuk, and it allows you to either index all your files or index
the files' content. =20
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Well I did not know that it could handle content.
System Settings =E2=86=92 Workspace =E2=86=92 Search =E2=86=92 "Also inde=
x content"
:)
Among other things, if you have it running, it's what provides you
with the search results if you bring up the KRunner search box by
pressing Alt+F2. If you have it set to index the content also,
then it can also present you with searches inside documents and
emails. =20
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If it behaves like Nepomuk you want to be sure it is shut
off as Nepomuk created huge files that filled up my disks until
I wised up to what it was doing.
Nepomuk was commonly set up to create backups by default, and to
reserve a certain amount of drive space for that. I see no such
settings in Baloo, although it does have an index file of about 150 MiB
under ~/.local/baloo on my system.
Personally, I have it running, but set to only index files, not
their content. This was the default in Manjaro, and I've kept it
that way. By contrast, in PCLinuxOS, the default is to have it
disabled.
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If you're running XFCE, then there's a good chance that it already
offers a similar search functionality of its own =E2=80=94 GNOME (which seeks to combine the worst of macOS with the worst of Windows)
certainly does have something similar as well =E2=80=94 and then you wo=
n't
need Baloo.=20
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Have you heard Aragorn that Gnome and KDE are combining their
forces to conquer the desktop environment world. <https://www.zdnet.com/article/gnome-and-kde-work-together-on-the-linux-d=
esktop/>
Yes, I saw it at Slashdot and I believe it was also posted at the
Manjaro forum a while ago. =20
Just search on Gnome-KDE collaboration for lots of speculation
and maybe some news.
And as with all else the result of this collaboration will be=20 downloadable but not yet despite Source Forge links to an empty
project.
I fear for the result being the worst of both worlds.
Oh, I certainly share your fear, Bobbie, even if only because one of
the two players involved is GNOME. =20
The GNOME and GTK developers =E2=80=94 insofar as they are not the same peo= ple
=E2=80=94 have a very authoritarian and antisocial attitude with regard to their code. See, they feel that catering to the users' wishes for more customization options would negatively affect the quality of the code
they write.
If I were in their shoes, I would feel the exact same way, given how
poor the quality of their code already is. :p
Seriously, in my 20+ years of exclusively using GNU/Linux, I have
barely ever had any problems with KDE applications, but GNOME/GTK
applications have always been troublesome and relatively unstable.
Unfortunately, not everything is available in a Qt variant =E2=80=94 many applications do come in both versions, though =E2=80=94 and so I'm still fo= rced
to use GTK applications, such as this Claws Mail that I'm using for
Usenet access. And it occasionally still crashes. But other than that
and GIMP, I try steering clear of all things GTK. =20
It's Qt all the way for us, Preciousss. GNOMEses, we hates them, we
hates them! ;)
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With respect,
=3D Aragorn =3D
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