On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Vishesh Handa <m...@vhanda.in> wrote:
> On Saturday, March 29, 2014 03:53:00 PM Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: > > > > Last I checked, the list is as wide as the dialog and there is quite some > > space where a full path will (mostly) fit in, so it should be good. Also, > > is that bug reported on bugs.kde.org? > > > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332760 > > It's not about the width. The single folder looks much better and is less > scarier. > > > > > - 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? > > > > Well right now I don't know whether Baloo is indexing by root drive, > and/or > > my home folder, and/or my other 2 disks, and/or my USB drive. > > > > Personally I'd like a whitelist because I'd like to command my desktop > > search to search at some places rather than it trying to search > everything > > and me restricting it for some paths. The former makes you feel in > command > > (TM). > > Isn't that just because you've bad experiences with Nepomuk? Also, I'd > love to > know what kind of files you don't want it to index. I understand source > code, > but what else? > > > > > TBH, even I thought the dialog is WIP ;) > > > > What would you recommend? Apart from both white list and black lists, which > I'm against. > Another thing that I just remembered is that right now I have Nepomuk set like this- /media/Data/Music (index) /media/Data/Photos (index) /media/Data/Pictures (index) /media/Data/Other/Downloads (index) Now, /media/Data/Other has dozens of other dirs I don't want to index. If I only have a blacklist, I'll have to sit and add each of those dirs manually to the blacklist :( > -- > Vishesh Handa > -- Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com
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