[dolphin] [Bug 483578] When baloo is installed but not working (e.g. some issue with indexer not starting), Dolphin will neither show search results nor offer any obvious way to use a different fallback

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483578

--- Comment #20 from tagwerk19 at innerjoin.org ---
(In reply to Ellie from comment #19)
> ... I got it to work by one day finding the Baloo indexing options inside KDE
> system settings, and fully turning off baloo there ...
That's the GUI way of setting the "Indexing-Enabled" on or off...

> Have a look at ~/.config/baloofilerc, if you've disabled Baloo you should see:
> 
>   [Basic Settings]
>   Indexing-Enabled=false
Dolphin looks at this config file and decides whether to use Baloo or not.

> 1. Let me identify clearly in some way, e.g. when going into the settings to
> configure search providers, which search provider is actually used. Let me
> pick a different provider in the Dolphin settings if I want that, too.
That would be a nice option. There's baloosearch and filenamesearch, if someone
came up with a kfilesearch that followed the same API and behaviour it would
make sense that Dolphin has an option to use it...

> 2. If baloo returns nothing in a folder that clearly isn't empty, maybe
> Dolphin could eventually figure out there's some issue with it and display
> some sort of warning.
The "clearly isn't empty" is troublesome... I don't think you can know whether
Baloo is not finding file because you have too tight a search criteria (think
of a typo in your search query) or that Baloo has died...

> Basically, when baloo is enabled but not working at all, Dolphin doesn't
> give the user much to work with to figure out what is going on.
I think there's a case for Dolphin asking Baloo if it has indexed that
particular folder. If Baloo is alive and can answer "yes" then Dolphin uses the
Baloo index, otherwise it falls back to its own (filenamesearch) way of doing
things....

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