Thanks, Dale, for your point of view. But since I'm not the only user (my wife is forced to use it, too ;-) )and I am the only one that knows how to use a command line session, for instance, I still want to try to make this semantic desktop thing to work.
Thanks, again, and Best Regards Francisco 2015-08-21 22:36 GMT-03:00 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>: > Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > On Friday, August 21, 2015 6:27:36 PM Dale wrote: > >> Francisco Ares wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> In fact, I can only suppose there's something related to changing from > >>> nepomuk to baloo: > >>> > >>> Now, every time I log in, a window pops up asking for root password. > >>> The window title is "PolicyKit - KDE" and pressing the button > >>> "Details", it shows: > >>> > >>> Action: Folder Watch Limit > >>> polkit.subject-pid: 5254 > >>> polkit.caller-pid: 6699 > >>> > >>> Looking for those PIDs: > >>> > >>> ~ $ ps -A | grep 5254 > >>> 5254 ? 00:00:07 baloo_file > >>> > >>> and PID 6699 doesn't show up any more, probably the process has > >>> already ended. > >>> > >>> Did I miss something? How do I set up Baloo? Looking on the net, I > >>> only found how to set up a file ~/.kde4/share/config/nepomukserverrc > >>> (that was nonexistent, which seemed strange), is there something else > >>> regarding the database it might be willing to use? > >>> > >>> Thank you all. > >>> Francisco > >>> > >> > >> Reading your posts, it seems you don't really want this "feature" of > >> KDE. Why not disable the thing? I have this in make.conf: > >> > >> -nepomuk -semantic-desktop > >> > >> So far, that has disabled the whole desktop search thingy, that I also > >> found to be a pest and never needed. > >> > >> Just a thought, in case you wasn't aware. > >> > >> Dale > >> > >> :-) :-) > > Do you use kmail? I disabled nepomuk at one point and I wasn't able to > access > > my contacts on kmail. I think it's the same with baloo. And from what > I've > > read the plan is for more applications to use it so you may miss > important > > features. They recommend just disabling file indexing or adding your home > > directory to the exclusion list on system settings, But after doing that > I > > still got that popup a few times until I okay'd it. > > > > > I used to use Kmail until all this mess started. I think the last I > used Kmail was back in KDE3. When I saw all this mess coming, I > switched to Seamonkey. Seamonkey does all my email stuff and I'm happy > with it. I do wish the sound notification thingy would work tho. Maybe > I just need to sit down one day and try to figure out why it doesn't > work. Sound works everywhere else. Still, it does what I really need > without to much bloat. > > I installed KDE with the kde-meta. It basically installs everything but > the kitchen sink. To be honest tho, I could likely install it in a > better way that leaves out TONS of stuff I never use. This file indexer > thingy is one of the ones I have never had a need for. If I want to > find some file, locate, find and etc works for those rare occasions. It > is rare since I'm fairly well organized with my stuff. Well, computer > files at least. My closet and shop is a different matter tho. lol > > My point was that this can be disabled IF it is not needed. If it is > needed, then fixing it is the solution. If it is not, disable it and > shove the problem into the trash can. ;-) > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > >
