Re: [gentoo-user] What is the point of baloo?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 12:04 PM Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
wrote:
>
> On 17/09/2023 19:35, Peter Böhm wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, 17. September 2023, 19:46:05 CEST schrieb Wols Lists:
> >
> >> It always annoys me, but baloo seems to be being an absolute nightmare
> >> at the moment.
> >
> >> I tried to kill it and it appears to have just restarted. Is there a
use
> >> flag I can use to just get rid of it completely?
> >
> > Do you mean use-flag "semantic-desktop" ?
> >
> > (I have disabled it in my make.conf)
> >
> I guess I do. I've just disabled indexing as per Mark, and it's reduced
> my load average from 12 "just like that". It's just an absolute pain in
> the arse given that about the only KDE app I actually use is Konqueror.
>
> But yes, I'll set -semantic-desktop in make.conf.
>
> Why does all this crap default to "I'll waste as much of your computer
> time as I can, and I won't tell you what I'm doing, or how to benefit
> from it"?
>
> In turning off indexing, I notice there's also plasma search. But I
> haven't got a clue what all those widgets do. So I click on the "info"
> button and I just get the description AGAIN. What's the point of all
> this crap, if they can't be arsed to tell you what it DOES!?!?
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>

I do agree, and for a user like me primarily on Kubuntu I cannot
easily get away from having it on the machine so I'm happy to
just be able to turn it off.

As for documentation, it's horribly out-of-date and it's probably
the biggest negative about using Open Source as no one really
wants to write it, and most users don't read it anyway.

I feel ya!

- Mark

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