[KDE/Mac] Review Request 120939: [OS X] turn baloo services into proper background "agents" and use IOPOL_THROTTLE for lower priority IO

[Vishesh Handa]

> On Sept. 18, 2015, 9:25 p.m., Marko Käning wrote:
> > Why has this been discarded?
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> Vishesh Handa wrote:
>     Oops. I didn't press publish on my comment.
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>     Baloo, now as a design goal, doesn't support OSX or Windows any more. We recommend using their native file indexers. Sorry about not pushing your patch, I meant to port it to Qt5, but I ran into conflicts and never landed up working them out. I hope this doesn't discourage you from contributing to KDE. Again, I apoligize for not getting to this sooner.
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> René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>     Then I hope someone steps up to write a meta-api with backends to baloo and native indexers/search engines on OS X and MS Windows. 
>     
>     Oh, wait, this will have to be done for the existing baloo API, because I don't think any KDE application maintainer will be bothered to change a search/indexing interface that works :-/
>     
>     So what does this mean for email indexing in KDE PIM?!
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> Marko Käning wrote:
>     Yeah, René, we had discussed this meta-api quite a few times throughout the last year...
>     
>     Well, I hope this isn't bad news for your email indexing on OSX/KDE-PIM. It seems so to me! :-(

About the meta-api, someone will have to step up. I don't have the motivation. For now - Baloo still compiles its libaries on other platforms, but they will not provide any useful data.

Regarding PIM, the Baloo parts of PIM were split out. They are in a separate repository called akonadi-search. Your patch should still be applicable over there - https://paste.kde.org/p22is7qpn Maybe someone could test it out?


- Vishesh


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On Sept. 18, 2015, 9:15 p.m., René J.V. Bertin wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 18, 2015, 9:15 p.m.)
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> Review request for Baloo and KDE Software on Mac OS X.
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> Repository: baloo
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> Description
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> This patch turns baloo_file, akonadi_baloo_indexer and baloo_file_extractor in proper background "agents" that do not appear in the Dock, menubar and application switcher.
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> In addition, use the platform's IOPOL_THROTTLE IO policy when lower priority IO is requested.
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> Diffs
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>   src/file/CMakeLists.txt 49a34dd 
>   src/file/extractor/CMakeLists.txt 31efc6a 
>   src/file/extractor/main.cpp 4be2c24 
>   src/file/priority.cpp 1c4e568 
>   src/pim/agent/CMakeLists.txt cd19027 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120939/diff/
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> Testing
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> Mac OS X 10.6.8 with kdelibs git/4.14, baloo and kdepim 4.13, akonadi git/1.13 .
> Indeed, the patch was prepared with baloo 4.13 but applied cleanly (without fuzziness) to baloo git/4.14 .
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> Thanks,
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> René J.V. Bertin
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