Re: [gentoo-user] nepomuk gone, baloo enters

[Francisco Ares]

Thanks, Dale, for your point of view.

But since I'm not the only user (my wife is forced to use it, too ;-) )and
I am the only one that knows how to use a command line session, for
instance, I still want to try to make this semantic desktop thing to work.

Thanks, again, and
Best Regards
Francisco

2015-08-21 22:36 GMT-03:00 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>:

> Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Friday, August 21, 2015 6:27:36 PM Dale wrote:
> >> Francisco Ares wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> In fact, I can only suppose there's something related to changing from
> >>> nepomuk to baloo:
> >>>
> >>> Now, every time I log in, a window pops up asking for root password.
> >>> The window title is "PolicyKit - KDE" and pressing the button
> >>> "Details", it shows:
> >>>
> >>> Action: Folder Watch Limit
> >>> polkit.subject-pid:    5254
> >>> polkit.caller-pid:     6699
> >>>
> >>> Looking for those PIDs:
> >>>
> >>> ~ $ ps -A | grep 5254
> >>>  5254 ?        00:00:07 baloo_file
> >>>
> >>> and PID 6699 doesn't show up any more, probably the process has
> >>> already ended.
> >>>
> >>> Did I miss something? How do I set up Baloo? Looking on the net, I
> >>> only found how to set up a file ~/.kde4/share/config/nepomukserverrc
> >>> (that was nonexistent, which seemed strange), is there something else
> >>> regarding the database it might be willing to use?
> >>>
> >>> Thank you all.
> >>> Francisco
> >>>
> >>
> >> Reading your posts, it seems you don't really want this "feature" of
> >> KDE.  Why not disable the thing?  I have this in make.conf:
> >>
> >> -nepomuk  -semantic-desktop
> >>
> >> So far, that has disabled the whole desktop search thingy, that I also
> >> found to be a pest and never needed.
> >>
> >> Just a thought, in case you wasn't aware.
> >>
> >> Dale
> >>
> >> :-)  :-)
> > Do you use kmail? I disabled nepomuk at one point and I wasn't able to
> access
> > my contacts on kmail. I think it's the same with baloo. And from what
> I've
> > read the plan is for more applications to use it so you may miss
> important
> > features. They recommend just disabling file indexing or adding your home
> > directory to the exclusion list on system settings, But after doing that
> I
> > still got that popup a few times until I okay'd it.
> >
>
>
> I used to use Kmail until all this mess started.  I think the last I
> used Kmail was back in KDE3.  When I saw all this mess coming, I
> switched to Seamonkey.  Seamonkey does all my email stuff and I'm happy
> with it.  I do wish the sound notification thingy would work tho.  Maybe
> I just need to sit down one day and try to figure out why it doesn't
> work.  Sound works everywhere else.  Still, it does what I really need
> without to much bloat.
>
> I installed KDE with the kde-meta.  It basically installs everything but
> the kitchen sink.  To be honest tho, I could likely install it in a
> better way that leaves out TONS of stuff I never use.  This file indexer
> thingy is one of the ones I have never had a need for.  If I want to
> find some file, locate, find and etc works for those rare occasions.  It
> is rare since I'm fairly well organized with my stuff.  Well, computer
> files at least.  My closet and shop is a different matter tho.  lol
>
> My point was that this can be disabled IF it is not needed.  If it is
> needed, then fixing it is the solution.  If it is not, disable it and
> shove the problem into the trash can.  ;-)
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>
>