Desktop search in KDE -- Baloo configuration, tweaking, functionality, docs?

Tue Apr 14 13:42:09 BST 2020

On 14/04/2020 13:13, Mark Rousell wrote:
>> - I still run a Plasma4 desktop myself (with most components updated to the latest 4.14 versions from git), and baloo works there though I usually suspend it because I have no particular need for it and it definitely burns too much CPU for that. I use an advanced KCM (https://gitlab.com/ericlnu/baloo-kcmadv) to control it more finely - but that one has never been updated to KF5 as far as I can tell ... maybe a nice challenge for you? For searching I use the milou (https://cgit.kde.org/milou.git) thingy, and that one *has* been updated for KF5. It gives me an interface (under Plasma4) that is reminiscent of the Spotlight interface in OS X ... no idea how it has evolved under Plasma5 (or devolved: there's a reason I've been sticking to Plasma4).
> 
> Thanks for the link to baloo-kcmadv and milou. I note that milou runs on
> top of Baloo.
> 
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> I'll check out milou.

I was just reading about Milou and I see that it was another project
that Vishesh Handa began: https://vhanda.in/blog/2014/03/introducing-milou/

And it seems that Milou was morphed into a 'Search' Plasmoid in Plasma
5. I'll check this out. See
https://vhanda.in/blog/2014/10/krunner-and-plasma-5/

-- 
Mark Rousell