On Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:10:41 +0100 Aurélien COUDERC <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Le jeudi 13 novembre 2025, 17:36:02 heure normale d’Europe centrale Celejar a > écrit : > > > > I recently tried to get KDE/Plasma File Search working. Through the > > KDE/Plasma UI, I enabled "File indexing" and set "Data to index: File > > names and contents" - and nothing happened. The KDE interface status > > line reported "Not Running, 0% complete", but gave no explanation as to > > why the indexer wasn't running despite "File indexing" being enabled. > > I think there’s a misunderstanding about what the "Not Running, 0% > complete" tries to convey. > This message only means that the indexer is not running *at that > particular time*, and the underlying meaning is that there’s nothing to > do because indexing was already done. "0% complete" means that "there's nothing to do because indexing was already done"? If so, that's a really poorly worded message. > The File indexing checkbox does enable and disable baloo in the same > way as the balooctl command does. It does? As I reported above, "File indexing" is checked, "Data to index" is set to "File names and contents", but: ~# balooctl6 status Baloo is currently disabled. To enable, please run balooctl enable > So maybe we can close this bug ? > > > Happy hacking, > -- > Aurélien -- Celejar
