On Saturday, March 29, 2014 11:34:36 PM Lindsay Mathieson wrote: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 02:18:24 PM Andrea Scarpino wrote: > > We had a bad experience with Nepomuk and now we want to control everything > > about this new desktop search settings, but we don't have to. > > We don't need to filter out source code, it already does. > > We don't need to black list external devices, it already does. > > It just works out of the box. > > Except when it doesn't. I don't like this automagic stuff. There's bound to > be edge cases where it doesn't work, possibly quite a lot of them. And all > those user who encounter them will have no way of knowing whats happening > and will just squawk loudly and often that search is still broken.
In those cases they can report bugs and we can fix it. I would really like if you could bring many of these "edge cases". Lets try to find a solution? > > > I guess we can stop to worry about desktop > > search anymore. > > I currently have no idea what is being indexed on my pc. I have no way of > finding out. If I change my directory structure or add extra media mounts I > just have to have faith that baloo does the right thing. > > It just seems a recipe for user angst and frustration. I'm not sure if this is the way you intended it, but to me this translates to - "I have no trust in the software you have written and would like to check every thing it is doing, and I expect you to provide user interfaces so that I can monitor it every second" -- Vishesh Handa >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
