Plasma 5.2 bits for kdereview

[Kåre Särs]

On Thursday 08 January 2015 21:52:48 Ian Wadham wrote:
> On 08/01/2015, at 9:40 PM, Vishesh Handa wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  - I don't think Windows has anything like Baloo or KWallet, but Apple
> >  
> >       OS X certainly has, and has had for years.  We, on the KDE-Mac list,
> >       are starting to integrate KWallet and Apple's Keychain app, but
> >       Baloo
> >       is still an unknown quantity, esp. re how hard-wired it is into KDE
> >       apps.
> > 
> > Side note: Windows has really good search capabilities.
> 
> I have not seen or heard of them, and I go to a PC Users' Group regularly.
> Which version of Windows?  Maybe 8?
> 
> > They actually have
> > many more features than Mac's spotlight, but they lack the marketing and
> > usability of spotlight. Baloo would be a bad fit on both windows and mac.
> 
> I am sad to hear that.  It would be nice if apps from KDE could keep
> indexing terms in the same place as Spotlight.
> 

Is there something stopping Baloo from becoming a "thin" wrapper around the 
native solutions when used on those platforms? (Except man power ;)

/Kåre