Review Request: Add warning for searching the complete file system

[Andre Heinecke]

> On May 3, 2012, 7:35 p.m., Mark Gaiser wrote:
> > Let me first say that i have absolutely nothing to say about this. I do have an opinion about this though.
> > I would not like this. If i'm searching i just want to search and certainly don't get a dialog just to confirm my search.
> > 
> > Others might think differently though... Perhaps as an option but disabled by default.
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> Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:
>     I guess you should introduce them to Nepomuk and explain them how to efficiently tag their files and find them by their contents instead :P
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> Andre Heinecke wrote:
>     Thanks for your feedback. I've argued about this with my admins, their argumentation was "The users that know what they are doing just use find"
>     Their argumentation was: If i use an open razor blade i don't expect a warning before I cut my throat. But if i use an electrical shaver i don't expect it to cut my throat.
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>     But I'll discard this patch, the warning is just annoying and would not solve much. An option to include network file systems (disabled by default) would be a better approach to this problem.
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>     Regards

Btw. nepomuk based file search is not going to be an option for company networks for a long time or ever. Imagine the Upgrade, every user indexes everything for themself,.. Afaik The semantic desktop as it is currently designed is for desktops and not for distributed environments.


- Andre


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On May 2, 2012, 7:50 p.m., Andre Heinecke wrote:
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> (Updated May 2, 2012, 7:50 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Base Apps.
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> Description
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> In my company it regularly happens that some "non technical" person, e.g. a secretary or a marketing guy tries to find a file he or she has no idea where it is placed.
> When they use kfind to search the complete file system without using locate this pretty much means a DOS attack on our company network with loads of NFS shares etc.
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> Searching the complete filesystem is nearly always wrong but as users are used to it from "Search my Computer" or other indexed search options they might not realize it.
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> This Patch adds a confirmation dialog if you want to search / or file:/// recursively without using locate warning you that this might take a very long time and is a resource intensive operation
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> Diffs
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>   kfind/kfinddlg.cpp 12b3b7e 
>   kfind/kquery.h 39609f3 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/104826/diff/
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> Testing
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> Compiled, tested with regular paths, as well as / and file:///
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> Thanks,
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> Andre Heinecke
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