On Saturday, March 29, 2014 09:07:04 PM Lindsay Mathieson wrote: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:17:45 AM you wrote: > > > - 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? > > The more I think on it, the less useful it is to index the whole machine by > default. For a start off there is a lot of content that make no sense to > index - config files, scripts, web apps, all the binaries of course. >
We do not index everything. That would be foolhardy. We just index your HOME by default. > And totally breaks on any machine with multiple user accounts, which is > actually quite common, both for business and home usage. > > Peoples searchable content is generally stored under their home directories > and/or on a file server, which again is not uncommon - lot of home NAS's out > there now. > > Just specifying a default white list of the home dir covers that nicely and > allows them to easily extend that for data and/or shares that might be > mounted out of their home dir. That's exactly what is done right now. How about you have a look at the config file and the implementation? > > If you really want to index every dir than you can just whitelist the root. -- Vishesh Handa >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
