Re: [gentoo-user] KF5 icons/styles settings UI. Which package?

[Daniel Frey]

On 07/21/2016 11:07 AM, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 21 Jul 2016 07:45:41 Daniel Frey wrote:
>> On 07/20/2016 10:37 PM, Mick wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 20 Jul 2016 20:37:58 Daniel Frey wrote:
>>>> On 07/20/2016 05:06 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
>>>>> This is fucking ridiculous. Baloo's kcm module is also part of
>>>>> plasma-desktop! Now after being forced to update it the indexer is
>>>>> making
>>>>> my system very unresponsive and I can't turn it off!
>>>>
>>>> Have you tried balooctl to turn it off? I think that's how I did it when
>>>> I tried plasma months ago.
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>
>>> I wasn't aware of this!  It seems baloo has been busy all on its own:
>>>
>>> $ balooctl status
>>> Baloo File Indexer is not running
>>> Indexed 6412 / 7195 files
>>> Current size of index is 79.07 MiB
>>>
>>> $ balooctl config show includeFolders
>>> /home/michael
>>>
>>> So it's been indexing my whole /home directory.  Will issuing a disable
>>> command survive a reboot?
>>
>> It's supposed to. It did for me for a while (i.e. several reboots) then
>> it started again. People have been reporting it works and doesn't work
>> so maybe it depends on the environment it's running in. There's other
>> baloo-related command line tools but I don't remember them now.
>>
>> I think I got annoyed at one point with all the freezing and crashing
>> (and I thought it was baloo even though it was disabled) and eventually
>> deleted all of the baloo* files, but plasma still kept crashing.
>>
>> Dan
>
> I've rebooted:
>
> $ balooctl status
> Baloo is currently disabled. To enable, please run "balooctl enable"
>
> Nice!  :-)
>

I do believe it leaves the index in place, you'll still have to remove
that manually. I don't think there was a command to clear the index but
I could be mistaken.

Dan