Mailing list tone

2014-04-21 Thread Ben Cooksley
Hi everyone, Due to the current tone of this mailing list I have enabled emergency moderation for this mailing list. I urge all involved to please carefully review all the posts that have been made to the list, consider why others have taken the position they have and what steps could be taken to

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Nathan Bradshaw
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 21, 2014, at 6:07 PM, Thomas Lübking wrote: > >> On Montag, 21. April 2014 23:40:57 CEST, Nathan Bradshaw wrote: >> >> ? that is what removing $home does. > > You're hopefully not serious about this. You're hopefully better at conversation in real life than this

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 06:02:08 PM Nathan Bradshaw wrote: > also again: straw man. I and no one else in this conversation has said that > opinions may not be expressed, all anyone seems to have done here is > patiently discuss things with you and ask you to show a modicum of respect > to those that ac

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 05:57:51 PM Nathan Bradshaw wrote: > They do. They can be turned off via the UI, > >Nope. > >ok, no longer worth having a discussion if you can't muster a better response than this I was referring to the UI as is. I'm glad that Vishesh is considering adding an option for di

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Luca Beltrame
Roney Gomes wrote: > She had nothing else to say since I already explained to you that's not > possible to uninstall Baloo without breaking KDE entirely. You seemed to > ignore that. That's a packaging problem - at least for single user systems. Baloo has been split in different packages in open

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Thomas Lübking
On Montag, 21. April 2014 23:40:57 CEST, Nathan Bradshaw wrote: ? that is what removing $home does. You're hopefully not serious about this. Is it "$home" or "$HOME" or %home% or system dependent or does "~" work or do I have to use "/home/`whoami`" - will it update if I change the homedir a

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Roney Gomes
Em seg 21 abr 2014, às 17:57:51, Nathan Bradshaw escreveu: > ok, no longer worth having a discussion if you can't muster a better > response than this She had nothing else to say since I already explained to you that's not possible to uninstall Baloo without breaking KDE entirely. You seemed to

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Jansen
On Monday 21 April 2014 16:44:33 Nathan Bradshaw wrote: > yes it can. remove $home and it is turned off. also, Vishesh has already > said in this thread that he will re-add an enable/disable button to the > kcm. stating that it can't be turned off is dishonest. Vishesh is writing > code and releasi

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Nathan Bradshaw
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Lindsay Mathieson < lindsay.mathie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 05:51:39 PM Nathan Bradshaw wrote: > So you think people aren't allowed to vocalise their > opinion on the software in KDE? > also again: straw man. I and no one else in this conversati

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Nathan Bradshaw
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Lindsay Mathieson < lindsay.mathie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 05:51:39 PM Nathan Bradshaw wrote: > > They do. They can be turned off via the UI, > > Nope. > ok, no longer worth having a discussion if you can't muster a better response than this >

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Nathan Bradshaw
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Lindsay Mathieson < lindsay.mathie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 05:40:57 PM Nathan Bradshaw wrote: > > If the process has gone haywire to such a degree it needs to be > deactivated > > it can be, via the UI as it exists now, with the explicit 'exclude

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 05:51:39 PM Nathan Bradshaw wrote: > They do. They can be turned off via the UI, Nope. > they can uninsltalled. Nope. > A distro > that does not include the package can be selected. The code can be compiled > without it. The code is available as free software and can be mo

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Nathan Bradshaw
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Lindsay Mathieson < lindsay.mathie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 05:25:55 PM Nathan Bradshaw wrote: > > > Again, with the straw men. to quote Vishesh's blog "**We** would like to > > > promote the use of" (my emphasis). No suggestion except by you

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Roney Gomes
Em seg 21 abr 2014, às 17:25:55, Nathan Bradshaw escreveu: > and can turn it off, in the UI, in config files, can uninstall it if their > distro packages accordingly and modify the code themselves, can choose a > distro that doesn't install it by default There has to be a default; > you're atta

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 05:40:57 PM Nathan Bradshaw wrote: > If the process has gone haywire to such a degree it needs to be deactivated > it can be, via the UI as it exists now, with the explicit 'exclude' option > that will trigger the same functionality that appears to be being re-added, > via confi

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 05:25:55 PM Nathan Bradshaw wrote: > Again, with the straw men. to quote Vishesh's blog "**We** would like to > promote the use of" (my emphasis). No suggestion except by you that > this is one person's thinking on the subject. "I think the more important question for me is

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Nathan Bradshaw
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Lindsay Mathieson < lindsay.mathie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 05:25:55 PM Nathan Bradshaw wrote: > > why do you think a checkbox linked to the deactivation functionality > would > > be different to it being triggered by removing $home? > > Because t

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:18:27 PM Lydia Pintscher wrote: > > The new KCM has holes in it - I've logged a bug for cases where data can't > > be indexed due to the blacklist approach. I've got a week off coming up - > > I'll spend some time writing an alternate KCM myself and see how that > > works out

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 05:25:55 PM Nathan Bradshaw wrote: > why do you think a checkbox linked to the deactivation functionality would > be different to it being triggered by removing $home? Because the checkbox would be linked to the config option for actually disabling baloo rather than just remo

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:34:28 PM Vishesh Handa wrote: > > 781 replies, all asking for the option to disable indexing to be restored, > > 78 replies, 26 of which are mine. And not all say the same thing. Sorry 781 was a typo. But of the replies not yours, most wanting the option. -- Lindsay sign

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:12:20 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > This is a developer list where these things are meant to be discussed. > > Yes, keyword here being *discussing*. > > Saying "Vishesh is arrogant" is not discussing. Actually the phrase "Arrogant" was being thrown at me and others fir

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 06:34:45 AM Lindsay Mathieson wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 04:25:31 PM Nathan Bradshaw wrote: > > Vishesh described a perfectly legitimate approach and you're hounding him > > because your particular corner case was not considered as important as > > what > > is considere

Re: Loading and "unloading" a shared library after use

2014-04-21 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 21 d'abril de 2014, a les 20:49:06, Shantanu Tushar Jha va escriure: > Hi fellow devs, > > In the latest Kubuntu release, 14.04, Plasma Media Center's primary feature > - playback of audio and video has stopped working. This is because we link > to libplasma which in turn links to lib

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Nathan Bradshaw
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Lindsay Mathieson < lindsay.mathie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 04:44:33 PM Nathan Bradshaw wrote: > > yes it can. remove $home and it is turned off. > > And for a number of people it doesn't. And yes this is a bug, which no > doubt > will be fixed. B

Re: Help fixing a Tellico CSV bug

2014-04-21 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 21 d'abril de 2014, a les 09:20:24, Robby Stephenson va escriure: > On 4/17/2014 2:19 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > El Dimecres, 16 d'abril de 2014, a les 21:55:50, Robby Stephenson va escriure: > >> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > >>> El Dimarts, 15 d'a

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Lindsay Mathieson wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 04:44:33 PM Nathan Bradshaw wrote: >> yes it can. remove $home and it is turned off. > > And for a number of people it doesn't. And yes this is a bug, which no doubt > will be fixed. But this is also why you give peop

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dimarts, 22 d'abril de 2014, a les 07:02:03, Lindsay Mathieson va escriure: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 04:44:33 PM Nathan Bradshaw wrote: > > yes it can. remove $home and it is turned off. > > And for a number of people it doesn't. And yes this is a bug, which no doubt > will be fixed. But this is a

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 04:44:33 PM Nathan Bradshaw wrote: > yes it can. remove $home and it is turned off. And for a number of people it doesn't. And yes this is a bug, which no doubt will be fixed. But this is also why you give people options and overrides - bugs happen and its arrogant to assume

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, April 21, 2014 21:20:49 Vishesh Handa wrote: > On Monday, April 21, 2014 03:54:34 PM Roney Gomes wrote: > > Em seg 21 abr 2014, às 20:19:30, Vishesh Handa escreveu: > > > What's the name of the process? If it's baloo_file_cleaner, then that's > > > probably cause it's removing all the in

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Nathan Bradshaw
yes it can. remove $home and it is turned off. also, Vishesh has already said in this thread that he will re-add an enable/disable button to the kcm. stating that it can't be turned off is dishonest. Vishesh is writing code and releasing it under a free software license, you are trying to badger hi

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Luca Beltrame
Lindsay Mathieson wrote: Hello Lindsay, > Poeple aren't asking for features - they are asking for features to be > removed that were forced on them. Given what Vishesh has said (being that this is just turning into stop energy for him), I would ask you to *re-read* the KDE Code of Conduct (not

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 04:25:31 PM Nathan Bradshaw wrote: > Vishesh described a perfectly legitimate approach and you're hounding him > because your particular corner case was not considered as important as what > is considered the common use cases. The feature is on by default, can be > turned off th

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Nathan Bradshaw
and your comments are the very opposite of constructive. It is only possible to do so much as one person or even a small team. Vishesh described a perfectly legitimate approach and you're hounding him because your particular corner case was not considered as important as what is considered the comm

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 10:14:36 PM Mario Fux wrote: > I think this is the strong language that some people meant and that's not > very productive. Nobody was "forced". ? so non developers have an option to use white listing instead of blacklisting that I'm not aware of? > It's still free software

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 10:18:56 PM Vishesh Handa wrote: > The way we did stuff for the KCM was to design personas, establish > use-cases, and then see what amount of configurability best satisfied the > personas and use- cases we were trying. The very opposite of consultation. You only created the

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Mario Fux
Am Montag, 21. April 2014, 21.52:24 schrieb Lindsay Mathieson: Good morning guys and gals > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:50:08 PM Thom Castermans wrote: > > you should always ask > > for a feature *nicely* > > Poeple aren't asking for features - they are asking for features to be > removed that were f

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Thom Castermans
Op dinsdag 22 april 2014 05:52:24 schreef Lindsay Mathieson: > Poeple aren't asking for features - they are asking for features to be > removed that were forced on them. > > With regards to whitelisting they are asking for a useful feature to be > restored that was was deliberately removed, with n

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 05:52:24 AM Lindsay Mathieson wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:50:08 PM Thom Castermans wrote: > > you should always ask > > for a feature *nicely* > > Poeple aren't asking for features - they are asking for features to be > removed that were forced on them. > > With reg

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:28:36 PM Vishesh Handa wrote: > > I am currently testing 3.14/trunk and was unplesently surprised there was > > no way to disable indexing at all. I note, even windows lets you disable > > its indexing/search services. Forcing it on for users in KDE is not the > > KDE way. >

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 08:50:08 PM Thom Castermans wrote: > you should always ask > for a feature *nicely* Poeple aren't asking for features - they are asking for features to be removed that were forced on them. With regards to whitelisting they are asking for a useful feature to be restored that

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Monday, April 21, 2014 03:54:34 PM Roney Gomes wrote: > Em seg 21 abr 2014, às 20:19:30, Vishesh Handa escreveu: > > What's the name of the process? If it's baloo_file_cleaner, then that's > > probably cause it's removing all the index. > > The process is akonadi_baloo_indexer. When I said Balo

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Roney Gomes
Em seg 21 abr 2014, às 20:19:30, Vishesh Handa escreveu: > What's the name of the process? If it's baloo_file_cleaner, then that's > probably cause it's removing all the index. The process is akonadi_baloo_indexer. When I said Baloo is consuming CPU time I meant to say that it's still being exec

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Thom Castermans
Hello, I have been following this discussion passively, but I would like to take the opportunity to say thank you, Vishesh, for all of your hard work. I really feel like some people are overreacting a bit, or at the very least formulate their e-mails in a somewhat offensive way. In my opinion,

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Burkhard Lück
Am Montag, 21. April 2014, 20:28:36 schrieb Vishesh Handa: > Anyway, I'll be adding an explicit disable button again (if the translators > allow me). Please ask on kde-i18n-...@kde.org for a string freeze exception, usually always you get approval. -- Burkhard Lück >> Visit http://mail.kd

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Monday, April 21, 2014 05:25:50 AM Shawn Starr wrote: > Hello, > > Vishesh, I apprecate the work you are doing with Baloo, but as a long > time KDE user and part developer (starting again soon). I do want the option > to disable indexing, period. We are not GNOME, we allow users choice to how >

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Vishesh Handa
On Monday, April 21, 2014 12:32:55 PM Roney Gomes wrote: > I understand Nepomuk is gone so my argument doesn't make much sense now. > However, I believe the same thing is happenning with Baloo. Since I added > my home folder to its blacklist, why it's still there consuming my > computer's memory

Re: meinproc4 on Mac, KLocale (was Re: What to test for 4.13?)

2014-04-21 Thread Luigi Toscano
Hi again (back from some holidays), Ian Wadham ha scritto: > On 19/04/2014, at 7:52 PM, Thomas Lübking wrote: >> Am Samstag, 19. April 2014 schrieb Ian Wadham : >>> On 18/04/2014, at 4:58 AM, Thomas Lübking wrote: >> If removing the KLocale() constructor avoids it, i'm fairly sure it will >>

Re: Help fixing a Tellico CSV bug

2014-04-21 Thread Robby Stephenson
On 4/17/2014 2:19 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: El Dimecres, 16 d'abril de 2014, a les 21:55:50, Robby Stephenson va escriure: On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote: El Dimarts, 15 d'abril de 2014, a les 21:34:38, Robby Stephenson va Anyone else have this problem? Particul

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Roney Gomes
Em seg 21 abr 2014, às 16:53:16, Michael Jansen escreveu: > > This has been discussed in detail at > > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=139606131629659&w=2 . tl;dr - There > > won't be an option to disable Baloo or an include list. Baloo might > > however > > show list of currently indexed dirs.

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread šumski
On Monday 21 of April 2014 08:07:27 Shawn Starr wrote: > So, I recant my code proposal, since > /usr/share/akonadi/agents/akonadibalooindexingagent.desktop spawns the PIM > agent each time. You can create local copy of the desktop file: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332195#c4 Cheers,

Loading and "unloading" a shared library after use

2014-04-21 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
Hi fellow devs, In the latest Kubuntu release, 14.04, Plasma Media Center's primary feature - playback of audio and video has stopped working. This is because we link to libplasma which in turn links to libgstreamer-1.0 while QtMultimediaKit links to libgstreamer-0.10. This upsets Glib because it

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Shawn Starr
> On Monday, April 21, 2014 10:53:16 AM, Michael Jansen > wrote: > > >> This has been discussed in detail at >> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=139606131629659&w=2 . tl;dr - > There >> won't be an option to disable Baloo or an include list. Baloo might > however >> show list of cu

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Jansen
> This has been discussed in detail at > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=139606131629659&w=2 . tl;dr - There > won't be an option to disable Baloo or an include list. Baloo might however > show list of currently indexed dirs. I really hope they reconsider. I was always a fan of nepomuk. Use

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Shawn Starr
On Monday, April 21, 2014 10:24:20 AM, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Shawn Starr wrote: > >On Monday, April 21, 2014 8:58:55 AM, "wagner.r...@gmail.com" > wrote: >> >>Hello Shawn, >>> >>> >>>take a look at this blog post, >>>http://vhanda.in/blog/2014/04/desk

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:50 PM, Shawn Starr wrote: > On Monday, April 21, 2014 8:58:55 AM, "wagner.r...@gmail.com" < > wagner.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello Shawn, > > > > > >take a look at this blog post, > http://vhanda.in/blog/2014/04/desktop-search-configuration/ > > > > > > > >" > >There

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 21 d'abril de 2014, a les 06:20:34, Shawn Starr va escriure: > On Monday, April 21, 2014 8:58:55 AM, "wagner.r...@gmail.com" > wrote: > > Hello Shawn, > > >take a look at this blog post, > >http://vhanda.in/blog/2014/04/desktop-search-configuration/ > > > > > > > >" > >There is no ex

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Shawn Starr
On Monday, April 21, 2014 8:58:55 AM, "wagner.r...@gmail.com" wrote: Hello Shawn, > > >take a look at this blog post, >http://vhanda.in/blog/2014/04/desktop-search-configuration/ > > > >" >There is no explicit “Enable/Disable” button any more. We would like to >promote the use of searching an

Re: Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread wagner . reck
Hello Shawn, take a look at this blog post, http://vhanda.in/blog/2014/04/desktop-search-configuration/ " There is no explicit “Enable/Disable” button any more. We would like to promote the use of searching and feel that Baloo should never get in the users way. However, we are smart about it a

Baloo Indexer and options

2014-04-21 Thread Shawn Starr
Hello, Vishesh, I apprecate the work you are doing with Baloo, but as a long time KDE user and part developer (starting again soon). I do want the option to disable indexing, period. We are not GNOME, we allow users choice to how they run their workflows. I don't use indexing and always disabl