Hi, On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Vishesh Handa <m...@vhanda.in> wrote:
> On Saturday, March 29, 2014 12:47:46 PM Lindsay Mathieson wrote: > > KDE 4.12.95 (Kubuntu 14.04 Beta 2) > > > > Is there work planned for this? because as is, its quite confusing and > > appears to be missing crucial settings. > > > > All I'm seeing is a "Do not search in these locations' list of folder > > leaves. > > > > - For a start off, only listing the last section of the directory name > will > > not do. People will have many folders all ending with the same leaf and > its > > impossible to tell them apart with this. > > I disagree. I don't think people will have many different folders with the > same > names. And there always is the tooltip. > > I do have a similar bug report. Perhaps it would make sense to show the > full > path if there are 2 folders with the same name. I'm not sure. > 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? > > > > - 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). TBH, even I thought the dialog is WIP ;) Cheers, > > > The old config allowed us to specify directories to index via a checklist > > tree, that worked really well. > > > > Some status info would be really useful to - number of files indexed etc. > > What use is there of that information? If you really want to know you can > go > to .local/share/baloo/file and run > > $ delve . > > -- > Vishesh Handa > > >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to > unsubscribe << > -- Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com
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