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Hi Dan, |
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On 11/04/16 09:55, Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> OK |
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> We're in 2016 now. And KDE *still* doesn't make it easy to disable their |
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> damn indexer. I've never wanted to search through my menu, I've never |
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> wanted it to remember every damn file I've opened. It's a personal |
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> preference. |
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> WHY can't we have a single checkbox to disable all this crap? I found |
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> one and it didn't work (search in system settings.) Then when I was |
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> searching around online I found out it will reenable itself magically |
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> randomly anyway! |
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> I also tried balooctl and it didn't work either. |
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> So I got very pissed off at this point and did the following: |
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> $ chmod 444 ~/.kde4/share/apps/RecentDocuments/ |
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> $ rm /usr/bin/*baloo* |
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> Rebooted |
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> $ rm -rf ~/.config/baloo* |
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> $ rm -rf ~/.local/share/baloo |
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> Rebooted again |
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> ...and FINALLY it stopped indexing and remembering stuff that I told it |
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> not to. It still remembers the last application used, but I don't really |
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> care about that. I've put those commands in a script in /etc/local.d too. |
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> Just figured others might want the info. A note, searching for files |
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> through Dolphin can be affected by this. I never do that myself, I |
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> always use a shell (konsole, etc.) |
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> I've been using and tweaking for a couple hours now and haven't seen any |
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> ill side-effects from my "nuclear" option. |
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In System Settings -> Search there's options to turn off the file |
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indexer as well as all the other search plugins (including recent |
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documents). I've heard that sometimes it can take a little bit for the |
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indexer to stop, but otherwise it seems to work OK fo rme. |
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Duncan has some patches floating around if you want to strip baloo out |
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completely. |
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> One other gripe on KDE5: it's 2016, why can't we use the meta key to pop |
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> up the menu? Really... |
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Not sure the reason why it's not native functionality, but you might try |
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x11-misc/ksuperkey. |
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> Other than that, things are a bit different. I'm not sure I like the |
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> flat look yet. After the upgrade for some reason the K menu was |
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> invisible, but when I set the theme to Oxygen it was visible again? I |
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> thought that was odd, did anyone else experience that? |
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Maybe a botched settings migration? |
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> Dan |
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Kind regards, |
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Michael |