On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Kåre Särs <kare.s...@iki.fi> wrote: > On Thursday 08 January 2015 21:52:48 Ian Wadham wrote: >> On 08/01/2015, at 9:40 PM, Vishesh Handa wrote: >> > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Ian Wadham <iandw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > - I don't think Windows has anything like Baloo or KWallet, but Apple >> > >> > OS X certainly has, and has had for years. We, on the KDE-Mac list, >> > are starting to integrate KWallet and Apple's Keychain app, but >> > Baloo >> > is still an unknown quantity, esp. re how hard-wired it is into KDE >> > apps. >> > >> > Side note: Windows has really good search capabilities. >> >> I have not seen or heard of them, and I go to a PC Users' Group regularly. >> Which version of Windows? Maybe 8? >> >> > They actually have >> > many more features than Mac's spotlight, but they lack the marketing and >> > usability of spotlight. Baloo would be a bad fit on both windows and mac. >> >> I am sad to hear that. It would be nice if apps from KDE could keep >> indexing terms in the same place as Spotlight. >> > > Is there something stopping Baloo from becoming a "thin" wrapper around the > native solutions when used on those platforms? (Except man power ;) > > /Kåre >
Well, that's not what Baloo is. Baloo is an indexing solutions. There's the possibility that we might want to abstract it out for whatever use-case, we'd want a different solution for that use-case. See Phonon vs mplayer. Aleix