[dolphin] [Bug 424887] Searching for file metainformation such as tags in Dolphin

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424887

--- Comment #9 from myndstream at protonmail.ch ---
* baloosearch:/?query=tag:tagname does not show any files in dolphin (entered
in Dolphin search by pressing Ctrl+F)
* same for baloosearch tags:tagname
* same for tags:tagname
* same for tags:/tagname
* same for tags=tagname
* same for tag=tagname

* running baloosearch tags:tagname in the console in that folder only returns
the elapsed time
* getfattr -d whatever-filename returns bash: getfattr: command not found

Tags would be very useful. I'm wondering why not many people have asked about
it as tags are a widely used functionality on the Web and could be tremendously
useful for things like music files. The tags could be used across apps and sync
across devices etc.

Note that having a good identifier-mechanism would be useful for this so that
tags could be kept for files whose names change (e.g. via hashes or adding ID
fields etc). But this could be implemented later once tags are working at least
to some degree.

balooctl status returned "Baloo is currently disabled. To enable, please run
balooctl enable"

I still don't get any search results but maybe it needs to index first.
balooctl monitor now returns:
```
Press ctrl+c to stop monitoring
File indexer is running
Initial Indexing
```

Is that file-indexing disabled by default? If so why? Maybe I disabled it
either for security reasons (and/) or because it consumed lots of CPU.

Anyways, I guess it'll probably work after it indexed the files. If not I'll
add a comment. But I'd still like to know if it's disabled by default in
debian. I'll check with KDE neon later. Thanks for the help!

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