Baloo tags

[Gilles Caulier]

yes.

to be honest i never used this feature, and i'm very reluctant to have
a too much intrusive technology in digiKam which introduce
dysfunction, where typically, it must work as expected. Baloo is one,
developed and maintained by one guy. Also, it's a KDE./Linux only
solution...

This is why i always refused to use a KDE way to store the digiKam
database, as Nepomuk or Akonadi

Gilles Caulier

2017-05-28 19:55 GMT+02:00 Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com>:
> Gilles
>
> Thank you for the update.
>
> Baloo tags sounded like a good idea but it feels like it did not really
> work. Am I correct ?
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> Date: 2017-05-27 2:22 PM (GMT-07:00)
> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power
> of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: Baloo tags
>
> Hi,
>
> Baloo support is optional at compilation time. For AppImage this
> option is not enabled because this make digiKam fully instable. This
> is not the fault to digiKam code which is very small here, but the
> Baloo component which is completely unsuitable since a very long time.
> Al ot of reports have been written in bugzilla since KDE4 version on
> digiKam and all move to Baloo team which have closed all files as
> unmainted/unsupported or something like that.
>
> The plan if this situation do not move on the right way is to drop
> Baloo support in the future. We have no time to lost with kind of
> component which make the application completely broken for user side.
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2017-05-27 22:16 GMT+02:00 Andrey Goreev <aegoreev at gmail.com>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Did Baloo tags disappear from settings in 5.6.0 ? I seem to not be able to
>> find them anymore.
>> What is their purpose anyways? I am on KDE so I turned them on a while ago
>> but they seem to be doing nothing other than creating duplicates (now I
>> have
>> each tag in Tags Tree and same tag in Baloo Tags)
>> Any thoughts ?
>>
>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.