https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=366561
--- Comment #4 from piedro <piedro.kul...@googlemail.com> --- Why isn't it included in the basic GNOME and XFCE installation? The simple fact that the KDE desktop is installed by the administrator as one of many alternative desktop environments should not constitute that every user has to run a service in the background that he or she will never use for anything. And as I stated there is a very easy fix: If someone uses KDE please run it in the background - if someone starts a KDE application that depends on it please run it but if someone doesn't do it simply don't. You know that historically there have been multiple issues with baloo services. Please realize that it is really disrespectful if user A on a multi user system has to troubleshoot problems (or bother the admin) with a bug or a running process that has nothing to do with his or her choice of DE. Also by your logic tracker-miner, zeitgeist or any other indexing service should also run as background process within or underneath KDE. I don't think anyone what think that is a reasonable idea... I really do not understand why you try to defend the status quo: if somebody really is switching beetween DEs on a regular basis it's easy for a power user to add a copy of the *.desktop file to the /.config/autostart folder and add: > X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true or whatever is needed. For a user only choosing one DE to work with it's very hard to find the problem if one arises (which happened a lot as you surely remember) if he or she has to search for a solution outside the chosen DE. I am glad that finally someone is reacting to my request but simply to reject it because it might be useful to some users is not a very community friendly approach. At least you should admit that the approach to deactivate a service that has been asked to be deactivated even by many KDE users is a very reasonable and constructive request. BTW: if you don't think there is a problem, try to setup a fresh system install Gnome, XFCE and KDE and let tracker and baloo run in the background at the same time... and if you run into performance issues try to find a solution from either one of the dev teams - good luck! Cheers, p. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
