On Sun, Sep 17, 2023 at 12:04 PM Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > > On 17/09/2023 19:35, Peter Böhm wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 17. September 2023, 19:46:05 CEST schrieb Wols Lists: > > > >> It always annoys me, but baloo seems to be being an absolute nightmare > >> at the moment. > > > >> I tried to kill it and it appears to have just restarted. Is there a use > >> flag I can use to just get rid of it completely? > > > > Do you mean use-flag "semantic-desktop" ? > > > > (I have disabled it in my make.conf) > > > I guess I do. I've just disabled indexing as per Mark, and it's reduced > my load average from 12 "just like that". It's just an absolute pain in > the arse given that about the only KDE app I actually use is Konqueror. > > But yes, I'll set -semantic-desktop in make.conf. > > Why does all this crap default to "I'll waste as much of your computer > time as I can, and I won't tell you what I'm doing, or how to benefit > from it"? > > In turning off indexing, I notice there's also plasma search. But I > haven't got a clue what all those widgets do. So I click on the "info" > button and I just get the description AGAIN. What's the point of all > this crap, if they can't be arsed to tell you what it DOES!?!? > > Cheers, > Wol >
I do agree, and for a user like me primarily on Kubuntu I cannot easily get away from having it on the machine so I'm happy to just be able to turn it off. As for documentation, it's horribly out-of-date and it's probably the biggest negative about using Open Source as no one really wants to write it, and most users don't read it anyway. I feel ya! - Mark
