On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Andrea Scarpino <scarp...@kde.org> wrote:

> On Sat 29, March 23:03:34 Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> > Ok, seems a bit complicated and black magic - I'd prefer to explicitly
> set
> > directories rather then hope the software guesses right.
>
> At the beginning I was with you: I thought we need a white list and not the
> other way around and I thought we need filters too, but after I read
> Vishesh
> responses I guess he's right.
>
> 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. I guess we can stop to worry about desktop
> search anymore.
>

I find it very impractical to believe that we can cover each and every file
type every user in the world will like to exclude. Having sane defaults is
one thing, not allowing to change those* when in need is plain wrong.

* And I am not taking editing config files as a solution if what we are
targeting here is making things easy for the user.


> My 2 cents.
>
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> Andrea
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