On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Vishesh Handa <m...@vhanda.in> wrote:

> On Saturday, March 29, 2014 06:48:45 PM Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote:
> >
> > Ok I plugged in my OtherDisk and it seems to work as you said, then I
> > removed the OtherDisk from the blacklist. Once I do that, there is no way
> > to know what is in fact being indexed. If you are hell bent on not
> allowing
> > a whitelist, can you at least provide a way for the user to know what is
> > being indexed? Like-
> >
> > "Currently indexing-
> >     Your home directory (/home/shantanu)
> >     OtherDisk
> > "
>
> Yeah. Perhaps.
>
> What I was really trying to do was hide the concept of "indexing" from the
> user. They care about searching, not about "indexing".
>

However, the problem is that most of your userbase is (unfortunately, in
this case) smart and will get confused if search magically happens without
indexing.


>
> That's why the Systems settings says "Desktop Search" and "Hide from search
> results".
>

Then it can say "Searching in" instead in "Indexing in"


>
> >
> > Another suggestion, provide a tooltip for the "Developer mode" thing,
> I've
> > no idea what it does.
> >
>
> I've removed the Developer mode. You might want to try out RC1. It has many
> important fixes. Actually, maybe you should just compile baloo on your own
> -
> KDE/4.13.
>
>
> --
> Vishesh Handa
>



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