The reason for me searching is exactly the same as the reason for Nirvanix's opening this subject. It drives me nuts that i dont have a straightforward way to disable it
The developer's answer :
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
Associates in my mind with something a proprietary freeware app developer would say about including an unasked for browser toolbar with his app (We would like to promote our services and feel that our presence should never get in a user's way, however we are smart about it, IF you really think you dont want it, get MalwareBytes and remove it)
Trying the brutal way :
pacman -Rdd baloo baloo-widgets
rendered Dolphin, file management module of Konqueror, Gwenview and possibly other stuff too unworkable. They fail to start, due to requiring /usr/lib files belonging to baloo
Then i tried to, with baloo and baloo-widgets missing from the system after the pacman -Rdd, to rebuild kdebase-dolphin from source. I just edited the PKGBUILD from extra and threw out any reminder of baloo
So far the dolphin i compiled appears to work fine
Is anybody interested in the cleaned up PKGBUILD (well its not much work really just 2 deletes) or intending to put up a mirror of uncontaminated KDE binary packages ?
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]]>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 and IF you add your HOME directory to the list of “excluded folders”, Baloo will switch itself off since it no longer has anything to index.
ps aux |grep baloo
and then
kill -9 all_baloo_processes
I was really annoyed by that searching. I have three HDDs and one of them is a 3TB, I waited about two hours in which my HDD reading went insane and it made me kill it.
]]>If baloo is not a dependency of dolphin then submit a bug report to the Arch Linux bug tracker.
You can create your own PKGBUILD file for dolphin that doesn't require baloo. It's dead simple.
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