Search Indicators in Dolphin

[Vishesh Handa]

Hey Frank

I've been trying to figure out how to schedule the indexing of the files.
Currently, it only indexes the contents of the file when idle. This
obviously doesn't work in all cases as many users will not be leaving their
system idle.

So, when users try to search, it does not give them the correct results and
that leads them to believe that nepomuk is not working.

One way of fixing this is by always indexing the files and adding
appropriate delays so that the user is not bothered, and that is what I am
going to do for 4.11. However, until the indexing has been completed we
still have the same problem.

The proper way to fix this would be to have some kind of "indexing
progress" bar which is shown to the user when they try to search.

So, if the user tries to search through a folder which is marked for
indexing and still not indexed, it will say "These files are currently
being indexed. The search results may not be complete" and it will show a
progress bar, and maybe even try to approximate the amount of time the
indexing will take.

Would you be okay with something like this in Dolphin? I'm imagining
something like the KMessageWidget, but with a progress bar. [1]

Also, maybe it would be nice that if the user tries to search through a
folder which is not indexed, a message widgets appears which says that this
folder is not indexed, and therefore searching will be slow, and then gives
the user the option to index the folder.

What do you think?

[1] http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/mds-updating.jpg

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Vishesh Handa
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