[dolphin] [Bug 406506] Wish - Show metadata of files stored on locations non-indexed by baloo in details view mode

Méven Car bugzilla_noreply at kde.org
Sat Mar 27 09:50:52 GMT 2021


https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406506

--- Comment #19 from Méven Car <meven29 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to tagwerk19 from comment #18)
> (In reply to Patrick Silva from comment #0)
> > It would be very nice if Dolphin could show metadata of non-indexed files
> > too.
> Having looked at Bug 434565
> 
> If baloo is enabled, as per 
>     Indexing-Enabled=true
> in baloofilerc, then dolphin displays the tags, ratings, comment (xattr
> metadata) read from the filesystem
> 
> With
>     Indexing-Enabled=false
> dolphin doesn't display the attributes.
> 

Indeed it depends on baloo metadata indexing currently.

But it does not support path not indexed by baloo such as external drives.
Also we can implement this without baloo as a fallback.

My patch suite https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/157 stuck
in review limbo does that.

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