On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 02:25:23PM +0200, Rafael Sadowski wrote:
> On Wed Sep 06, 2023 at 02:16:29PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 06, 2023 at 12:52:35PM +0200, Rafael Sadowski wrote:
> > > Stop staring baloo indexer in XDG based setup. Baloo can be a pain when
> > > you have a lot of files to index in your $HOME. kn@ has found it the
> > > hard way.
> > >
> > > OK?
> >
> > Woulnd't OnlyShowIn work in this case?
>
> Good point, maybe. After a short research I would prefer the way Debian
> is going and disable indexing by default:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/qt-kde-team/kde/baloo/-/blob/master/debian/patches/Disable-the-file-indexer-by-default.patch
>
> Objections, Opinions?
Even better, that works just fine for me.
baloo's desktop file already sets OnlyShowIn to KDE, GNOME, Unity and Xfce.
With indexing off, there is no resource hogging and may as well be enabled
by default everywhere.
Thanks, OK kn
(this is what I tested)
Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ports/devel/kf5/baloo/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -p -r1.37 Makefile
--- Makefile 2 Sep 2023 21:18:26 -0000 1.37
+++ Makefile 6 Sep 2023 12:36:09 -0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ COMMENT = KDE file search and metadata h
DISTNAME = baloo-${VERSION}
PKGNAME = kf5-${DISTNAME}
EPOCH = 0
-REVISION = 0
+REVISION = 1
SHARED_LIBS += KF5Baloo 5.0 # 4.0
SHARED_LIBS += KF5BalooEngine 7.0 # 5.0
Index: patches/patch-src_lib_baloosettings_kcfg
===================================================================
RCS file: patches/patch-src_lib_baloosettings_kcfg
diff -N patches/patch-src_lib_baloosettings_kcfg
--- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ patches/patch-src_lib_baloosettings_kcfg 6 Sep 2023 12:39:06 -0000
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Disable indexing by default, it hogs the entire machine.
+
+Index: src/lib/baloosettings.kcfg
+--- src/lib/baloosettings.kcfg.orig
++++ src/lib/baloosettings.kcfg
+@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
+ <group name="Basic Settings">
+ <entry name="indexingEnabled" key="Indexing-Enabled" type="Bool">
+ <label>Indexing-Enabled</label>
+- <default>true</default>
++ <default>false</default>
+ </entry>
+ </group>
+ <group name="General">
