[Nepomuk] Bugs, Patches and Scripts. - StrigiService & KInotify

[Vishesh Handa]

> If the subfolder was explicitly marked by the user as "to be indexed",
> then yes, I agree.
>

What do you mean by explicitly marked? Being marked via kcm?

>
> If, on the other hand, it was being indexed only because it was a
> subfolder of an indexed folder, then I'm not so sure. The only reason the
> subfolder was indexed in the first place, was its location. If its location
> changes, why still index it?
>
>
Depends on how you think of folders. I usually consider the contents of the
folder while judging whether or not it should be indexed, not it's location.
For example - A folder with, say, source code, shouldn't be indexed. EVER!
And hence it doesn't matter where I move it. It still shouldn't be indexed.
Another example is my Videos file. I often copy its contents to another hard
disk when I'm done with them. But I would still like them to be indexed not
matter where they are located.

But then not everyone thinks like I do. :-/

I generally don't like remembering more things that absolutely required.
Remembering which folders are indexed are which aren't is a laborious task.
Maybe Dolphin could show some visual confirmation about the indexing status
of a folder.



> Well, to be honest, there are of course situations where this behaviour is
> useful. But I don't think it is wanted in all situations.
>
> For example, it means that if you accidentally place a folder 'S' in an
> indexed folder, it becomes "tagged"; if you want to place 'S' somewhere
> else, so it won't be indexed, you either have to
>  1) move all its files to a new dir, which is not "tagged"; if 'S' has
> subfolders, then it's not enough to simply move over all its contents,
> because these subdirs will also be "tagged" — you'll have to recreate the
> whole directory structure; or
>  2) use some explicit interface to nepomuk/strigi to convince them to
> "untag" 'S' (remove it from the indexed folders list).
>
>
I'm just being a little pedantic, so fell free to ignore me. :-P Tagging is
different from indexing. But I get what you mean.


> I guess the preferred option would be 2).
>
>
Option 2 is available. It's present in System Settings.

This patch doesn't track excluded folders. It should. IMO if a folder has
been excluded it should always be excluded no matter where it is located.

Could someone else share their views. Please.

- Vishesh Handa
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