I have several Kubuntu installs, some updated from earlier versions (going back as far as Kubuntu 5.10), a couple of fresh installs. I've had some issues with Trusty Kubuntu & KDE 4.13, mostly not big deals, like various problems with using slideshows for desktop backgrounds. But one that really ticked me off was that the Find/Search functionality in dolphin was broken. Sometimes it worked, mostly it didn't, it just looked at me like a dog who'd just been shown a card trick when I tried to search for files. I tried restarting and reinstalling and adding extra elements to baloo, and sometimes it worked in some directories, some times, but mostly it didn't and baloo indexing sometimes brought my system to its knees trying to process multiple hard drives & network shares.
But I was thrilled to find that if I disabled Desktop Search in systemsettings the 'Find' button worked again just like it had in 12.04! Not only that, highlighting files with dolphin now gave me thumbnails again (that had varied from machine to machine, probably it didn't work where I had baloo enabled).
I guess I previously reflexively and automatically disabled semantic search in 12.04, the whole nepomuck/akonadi/whatever... complex used tons of resources, generated huge indexes and NEVER, EVER were of any use whatsoever. I don't use the KDE PIM stuff or Kmail, I don't think many people do, I don't tag or add comments to my files, I don't keep all of my files on a single machine, and even on a specific machine, stuff doesn't all live in my ~/home directory, all the pre-suppositions that the KDE developers make about how Linux users use their machines are wrong, wrong, wrong. But I didn't disable baloo because it seemed to have a smaller footprint on my machine, even though it was equally useless as the previous generation semantic search.
I was really looking forward to KDE4, but it didn't become really usable until 4.4 or so, I held on to Debian Lenny & Ubuntu 8.04 as long as I could to keep KDE3, which is still my all-time favorite desktop. Now I'm dreading KDE5. Oh well.
But I was thrilled to find that if I disabled Desktop Search in systemsettings the 'Find' button worked again just like it had in 12.04! Not only that, highlighting files with dolphin now gave me thumbnails again (that had varied from machine to machine, probably it didn't work where I had baloo enabled).
I guess I previously reflexively and automatically disabled semantic search in 12.04, the whole nepomuck/akonadi/whatever... complex used tons of resources, generated huge indexes and NEVER, EVER were of any use whatsoever. I don't use the KDE PIM stuff or Kmail, I don't think many people do, I don't tag or add comments to my files, I don't keep all of my files on a single machine, and even on a specific machine, stuff doesn't all live in my ~/home directory, all the pre-suppositions that the KDE developers make about how Linux users use their machines are wrong, wrong, wrong. But I didn't disable baloo because it seemed to have a smaller footprint on my machine, even though it was equally useless as the previous generation semantic search.
I was really looking forward to KDE4, but it didn't become really usable until 4.4 or so, I held on to Debian Lenny & Ubuntu 8.04 as long as I could to keep KDE3, which is still my all-time favorite desktop. Now I'm dreading KDE5. Oh well.
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